There's nothing wrong with entitlement as a legal construct or as a broad premise of individual rights in society: we are all entitled to life and liberty - except as they may legally be undone by our actions - and the pursuit of happiness.
However, the feeling, including the unconscious belief, that we are entitled to something more or different than what we have can be pernicious, personally and culturally. The trouble is magnified by our human inclination to self-justify. Entitlement has gone viral here in the U.S.A., fanning flames of anger, resentment, blaming, shaming, racism, misogyny and, generally, the self-righteousness that so divides our nation.
I cannot stop that epidemic. I cannot cure that virus. But by consciousness of exposure and of my own susceptibilities, I can do my best to strengthen my immune response to it and to give the antidote - love - to people I meet who seem to suffer from it. And you can, too.
