I do think a select few of us are able to handle existential ambiguity. Many others can't and they'll get a mental "blue screen of death" whenever there's too many contradictory ideas juggling around in their noggin that they'll unable to quickly shut down with thought-stopping mantras and other forms of deflection and denialism. This is likely the same reason why occultism is only suited to a select few; the rest need religion or some other form of simple moral formulation to work from. So then "casual narcissism" is how so-called "normies" cope with reality when mentally stressed, especially in a hyper-individualistic culture such as America's. That last part I expand upon in my above reply to Jeff. I'm not saying us occult-interested weirdos don't have or narcissistic moments too (I've had too many to count), but I think we at least have more capacity for self-reflection and the entertaining of different ideas than the average person.