How do I love me? Let me count the ways.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Growing use of individualistic words or phrases - Brief article

There is new evidence of how the trend toward self-absorption has grown over the last fifty years or so. "Between 1960 and 2008, individualistic words or phrases increasingly overshadow communal words or phrases," writes David Brooks, reporting on a study by Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell, and Brittany Gentile. Words like "self" and phrases like "I come...