{"id":2540,"date":"2015-06-10T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2015-06-10T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:39:45","slug":"self-entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"Self-Entitlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lisa24\"<\/a>
\nBy Mistress Babylon Consort, June, 2015<\/p>\n

Consider this question: If you won\u2019t, can\u2019t, or refuse to \u201c_________\u201d for yourself, why is the obligation or expectation put on to others to do it for you?<\/p>\n

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In the last several years, I have found myself crass (and either mildly amused or apathetic) to the bully of self-entitlement , yet at the same time, I see it as an ever-spreading cultural poison deemed acceptable by the \u201csensitive flowers\u201d of our society as they spread like a rampant weed that choke out self-determination. In turn, the grandiose illusion of self-entitlement has pablumized the true nature of need in terms of economic stratification.<\/p>\n

There are, of course, many areas in life where those holding the candle of self-entitlement will stalk you, yet I have encountered few, less than a handful, that are not capable of doing what-ever it is that needs to be done on their own steam. Still, the idea of getting a second job, as I suggested in several cases was deemed repulsive. Remarkably, at the same time, \u201cindependence\u201d off another\u2019s dime, sweat and labor was acceptable. Go figure.<\/p>\n

If it was one thing that Mother taught me, it was to always ask myself \u201chave I done EVERYTHING possible to make \u201c____\u201d happen, on my own, to the best of my ability?\u201d If I couldn\u2019t find a solution, she showed me another route to get there, and believe me, it often wasn\u2019t easy<\/p>\n

I view self-entitlement in the way that Nietzsche views Pity; \u201cPity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction; it fights on the side of those disinherited and condemned by life; by maintaining life in so many of the botched of all kinds, it gives life itself a gloomy and dubious aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The question remains, how independent are you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mistress Babylon Consort, June, 2015 Consider this question: If you won\u2019t, can\u2019t, or refuse to \u201c_________\u201d for yourself, why is the obligation or expectation put on to others to do it for you? In the last several years, I have found myself crass (and either mildly amused or apathetic) to the bully of self-entitlement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,13,61,21,22,29,1],"tags":[208,209,98,153,51,216,234,222,228,152,231],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BLIO-EY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}