Big learning opportunities?

Sometimes you might feel as if you just have to survive for a while knowing that you were traumatized by a culture, and part of the trauma of the culture was that it runs on the egos of self-absorbed people. It wouldn't be such a traumatizing culture if self-absorbed people weren't trained to contribute to the traumatization aspects of the culture, and they are rewarded by certain aspects of the culture for doing so. Maybe their needs to be a part of the self-absorption is also part of their own trauma. It's just expressing itself in its own weird way.