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>I can hear you, dear reader, muttering to yourself. You think I’m some entitled brat, some tone-deaf pampered prick looking for some way to complain about my incredible good fortune.

Well, yeah, when you act like everyone else is a sheep because they like gasp hot food or dear lord a free sweater, you might come across as a masochistic weirdo. Reminds me a lot of Bottle Rocket or The Comedy.



Is it more entitled to mindlessly indulge in your good fortune and sink into the luxuries that birth have afforded you, or to remain restless and shun easy luxuries as a trap? You could argue that people who are born into situations of privilege have a responsibility to reject an easy life and leverage their security to take the risks that others cannot afford too.


When spurning the luxuries of your birth are you giving them to others? Or are you just spending all those advantages toward a combination of being miserable in your hair shirt while striving for the ultimate entitlement, earning a place in future memory?




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