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To: THE ANT who wrote (96760)11/29/2012 12:29:31 PM
From: GPS Info  Read Replies (2) of 217553
 
Thanks for the link. While following other links from there, I found this:

Being entitled is taken as a wonderful thing in today's crumbling status quo, but upon examination we find that entitlement is intrinsically bound up with resentment and passivity/complicity. The act of feeling entitled brings with it a latent resentment: against others who may be getting more, and against the authorities who now wield power over the entitled.

If the Empire strip-mines productive citizens and other lands, the entitled don't care; they are focused on "getting what's mine" and whatever evils and costs are perpetrated to obtain the swag that flows to the entitled are ignored, marginalized or dismissed as irrelevant.

My working theory is that this entitlement attitude arises from the sins of vanity and greed. It can start with a royal birth, or wealth, or never developing an independent self. Some are born into dependence, and others retire on a pension from a company that caused the worst environmental disaster in American history. Either way, I now clearly see the natural proclivity to dismissed the associated “evil and costs” as irrelevant.
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