Brian Leiter is interested in whether there is, or is ever going to be, scientific analysis of bloggers’ personalities, and reckons there’s probably quite a few cases of narcissistic personality disorder out there in the World of Blogs:
The symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder include:
a grandiose sense of self-importance a belief in one’s specialness and one’s entitlement to associate with distinguished people and institutions lack of empathy, envy arrogant, haughty, behavior requires excessive admiration
He might be right.