Thoughts on Culture, Narcissism, and Perception

I've been reading about these books: The Culture of Narcissism,and The Society of the Spectacle. I find it interesting that one can draw conclusions from these books without having even read them.

Culture of Narcissism: We don't know who we are so we obsess over ourselves. (Displacement)
Society of the Spectacle: Things and shades of things have hidden the true reality of the world from us. (Displacement)

Now insert the intro from Blindside's "The Great Depression" -

We are the sons and daughters of a revolution
Revolutionaries walking us out of oppression and into a no-law promised land
Where there is no right or wrong
And this leaves us with a great sense of sadness growing inside our soul
No one can explain where it's coming from
Or where it's taking us
We just know that something is lost
That somehow we are lost
And this, my friend, is the great depression


There is an absolute that our culture hides from us. We look for it in the pursuit of ourselves, things, ideas, ect. but it is nowhere to be found. 2 conclusions can be drawn: Therefore there is no absolute (an absolute in itself), or there is an absolute that lies wholey outside of these things. The guy who wrote "The society of spectacle" says that a total revolution is needed in order to get out of the current state of things. This is false, because in todays society, all they have to do is start marketing the revolution and it is over. Example: Punk rock goes from anti-consumer, anti-market, to a marketable consumer item in how long...? No one wants to face the fact that the real problem lies within the idea of the self to begin with. It is the Self that draws us to the knumb and the comfortable. People want to blame all of this stuff on capitalism, or buisnesses, ect. but the truth is they only sell it because we want it. The opposite of this is true as well. The sooner everyone realizes that Man can only truly know himself when he realizes that he is only a reflection of God. This is not merely our function, it is our being. That is the ultimate truth behind things. God holds all goodness and purity within himself, meaning that everything outside of Himself is impure, unless He imparts His goodness upon it. We are only good when God declares us good. We are only pure when God declares us pure. When we take these things into our own hands they cease to be what they are and become mere shadows. Why? Because it's not reality. Everything outside of God is abscence unless he makes it good through his command and deed. Thank God for Jesus Christ our Holy mediatior who does this for us. Amen.

**Edit** I re-read this just now, and I think I failed to mention how the spectacle and the narcissism interact. Basically, I think A- either people try and "find themselves" in the spectacle, whatever that might be, or B- I don't think it would be too far fetched to say that some people see themselves as the spectacle. How many people have visited my blog/website lately? How many friends do I have on facebook? ect...