Greta guessed that Kate was vaguely aggrieved about the new kitchen — her sense of her entitlement to material things was somehow not greedy, just part of her natural force.
Institutions doled out easy money with an eye only to quick turnover and quicker profits; consumers assumed a foolhardy entitlement to material accumulation through debt.
Anger implies entitlement — to material goods, to power and privilege, or a certain kind of treatment.
Furthermore, the MoS's argument about their entitlement to reprint the material just because it was posted in a blog is wrong, as Salvadore argues on Jonny's blog: "'In the public domain' is a complete non-defence in this case.
Self absorption, self entitlement, self importance based on material evidence such as money, power, beauty, popularity and a host of other nonsensical criteria is leading the masses to the land of privation and despair.
"Man conducts himself in a certain criminal way," al-Ahdal writes, "like a predator in a forest, in order to obtain his material and moral entitlements in society".
This may strike you as an abstract problem, and one that depends, for both its articulation and its proposed solution, on a high degree of material security and social entitlement.
He added: "On that point, the landowner's entitlement to compensation may be a material consideration".
Affluenza causes an over inflated sense of entitlement, a de-sensitizing to small material pleasures, a diminished perception of gratitude, a mistaken notion that the bearer will always be similarly "afflicted," and an inability to be sated.
The vaguely unsatisfactory lives of 25-year-olds living in funky but friendly cohabitation as they await the arrival of the big payoff seems pretty thin material, as does the whiny entitlement of the nosy Milo.
