在较早的时候，有可能相信善良会以自豪为普遍，但不再是。骄傲的人可能会因不受惩罚而感到自豪，因为没有人以他的骄傲与他矛盾，因为自恋不再被视为恶习。她认为，这就是整个名人的崇拜。我们为这些人提供了贡献，并喂饱了他们的虚荣心。
(In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we fêted these people and fed their vanity.)