Narcissism And Creativity

It is less that narcissism stymies creativity,
and more that whatever a narcissist sees
happening around them, the more they will 
mistakenly credit themselves for that creativity,
as if it were the centre of everything,
including the creativity of other narcissists 
with whom they share the same condition.

Assuming being the centre of the creations
of other people starts slowly, with flattery
whilst behind the scenes the narcissist
finds cover to hind behind, through which
to take control of what belonged to others
they come to believe was theirs all along. 

For the creative person who gets trapped,
escaping the narcissist gets difficult,
it often means partial permanent surrender
and an income for the controlling figure
that morally the controller does not deserve,
but self centred people have no interest
in morality, unless the argument serves them.

And that is to say nothing
about the overweening control
that multinational corporations
who have more power
over individual consumers
than medium sized countries 
have over their citizens.