Originally Posted by Chula Vista

e·go·ma·ni·ac
ˌēɡōˈmānēˌak/Submit
noun
a person who is obsessively egotistical or self-centered.
"he is a raving egomaniac"[/IMG]

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.