Anonymous wrote:Hate to get political but look at our President……

Unfortunately our young as well as impressionable kids are viewing him as a role model which scares me to death.

But I think even adults are taking a page out of his rule book.

Our President acts entitled all the time (and he gets away w/it!)
So of course then society is influenced which is unfortunate.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't read as entitlement to me, exactly. That's there. But to me the prevailing feeling is angry. Everyone seems angry, and this makes them not care about others and to behave in more selfish ways, because it doesn't matter to them how their behavior impacts others.

But it just reads as less "I deserve this more than you" and more "I deserve this and I'm afraid you'll take it away from me if I don't aggressively snatch it out from under you."

I find myself spending less and less time in public spaces these days. It is too stressful. Especially because I'm a recovering people pleaser and nothing brings out my people pleasing instincts more than people acting angry or aggressive (I learned at a very young age to appease angry people in order to avoid becoming a target).

I could have wrote this. Angry everywhere entitled and angry in and around cities. I just don't want to be around these people anymore.

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't read as entitlement to me, exactly. That's there. But to me the prevailing feeling is angry. Everyone seems angry, and this makes them not care about others and to behave in more selfish ways, because it doesn't matter to them how their behavior impacts others.

But it just reads as less "I deserve this more than you" and more "I deserve this and I'm afraid you'll take it away from me if I don't aggressively snatch it out from under you."

I find myself spending less and less time in public spaces these days. It is too stressful. Especially because I'm a recovering people pleaser and nothing brings out my people pleasing instincts more than people acting angry or aggressive (I learned at a very young age to appease angry people in order to avoid becoming a target).

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Anonymous wrote:We have been telling generations of kids that they are super special, smart, can do and be anything. We made them believe that their confidence is what mattered and not their hard work and skills. We failed them because, of course, that is not true for the vast majority of them. And now we have a couple of generations of adults who are extremely entitled.

I don't think this is universal. There are absolutely a lot of people like this though. Mostly people who grew up UMC and came to believe their success in life comes from their intrinsic worth and not their good fortune at being born the children of doctors and lawyers, growing up in a safe and nurturing environment, and then attending "good" colleges (paid for by successful parents) and gaining entry into well paying careers. From their perspective, they had no more opportunities than anyone else and simply succeeded. They are entitled, yes, but also totally blind to the way the world actually works. The only people outside their bubble they can actually see are those above them professionally or economically. They'll obsess over the neighbor whose house cost a half million more or who got the big promotion they covet, and look right through anyone middle or working class in their orbit. Occasionally they'll find a working class people to pity, usually one who works for them, and they will endlessly tout how generous they are with this person (see the UMC mom who goes on and on about helping her nanny go visit her family overseas like she's Mother Theresa), it's how they deal with any creeping feelings of doubt that maybe their entire lives were handed to them and not actually earned after all.

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Anonymous wrote:OP and PPs, everyone but you and yours, right?

Um, correct. I do not cut around people waiting to make their turn, and I follow the rules of the road, such as waiting for oncoming traffic to pass before making my left turn. What's your point?

OP said everyone all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:OP and PPs, everyone but you and yours, right?

Um, correct. I do not cut around people waiting to make their turn, and I follow the rules of the road, such as waiting for oncoming traffic to pass before making my left turn. What's your point?