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Worthy and Deserving vs Entitled and Privileged
Recognizing where these notions vary, and why that is important.
It is virtually impossible to go online today without coming across overwhelming negativity.
It might be that friend who, meaning well, is always posting the latest news about this godawful thing or that terrible person. Perhaps it’s an inflammatory news article or clickbait. It may simply be someone you thought to be reasonable and intelligent spouting unreasonable and less-than-intelligent blather.
A great deal of these things that you encounter come from people who are either privileged, entitled, or both. Because you see them this way, it makes you question in turn what you are worthy and deserving of.
This is a totally normal matter to question, but it is worthy of closer examination.
The entitled
All you have to do is look to the Trump family, most Republican politicians, business leaders, some pro athletes and actors, and similar, to see entitlement in action. Their money, their “power,” their name causes them to believe that they are better than you and me and that they have every right to grind you down beneath the heel of their fashionable boots.
Further, from their lofty position above, they do everything that they can to…
