Problem is there are too many people clapping for themselves. With two deleterious effects:

1. they are impossible to compliment with any sincerity, because they’ve already proclaimed their own awesomeness. And then they complain that no one compliments them on their achievements!

2. they become impervious to legitimate and often necessary criticism. Think of the engineers of the building under construction in lower Manhattan that is tilting. Even with the example of the Millennium Tower in SanFrancisco that is tilting because they did not support it correctly, these Manhattan building engineers were likely high-fiving themselves for their ‘awesome’ work!