Sam's conversation with his Canadian socialist friend on Sunday, July 9, 2017

[Ernie Nemeth]

Hi Sam.

I see this article and its sentiment in a different light. I would question what definition of entitlement they were using - and what other similar mindsets it may actually prove.

Children of the eighties saw their parents emerge from the love-in of the sixties to become sell-outs to the corporations. They saw the hypocritical stance of their parents and took umbrage with it. They saw the world through the eyes of cynicism. Shielded from the true circumstance of their lives during their formative years, then thrust into a world of extreme violence and insane rhetoric and unhealthy toxicity, they had little choice but to become entitled, to push for entitlement.

What is entitlement. Does it mean deserving of respect, enrichment, and dignity just because of one's affiliation, just because one is alive? Or does entitlement mean deserving of the undeserved? Entitlement as it is used today, means freeloader, bum, spoiled, parasite. Entitlement is actually what is deserved by any member of the group. So let's see what we are deserving of, shall we?

We are deserving of paying enormous sums to get the education that may, if lucky, compensate sufficiently to earn a decent living. We are deserving of our money being constantly eroded into worthless paper, that steals the value and scope of our lives. We are deserving of misinfo, lies and corruption by those with the power to make our lives better - or worse. We are deserving of being used as cannon fodder in endless wars. We are deserving of poverty, misery, hopelessness. We are deserving of being led into a bleak future world of complete servitude.

When these 'authorities' speak what I hear is the viewpoint of the entitled forced on those with no right at all to any viewpoint but that, for fear of ridicule and further erosion of the few rights they have left.

So they become belligerent, bellicose and rude. They become irrational and confused by the backlash of what they consider a valid stance. They advocate increasingly extreme actions and affiliate with those of extreme political leanings.

They want this world torn down, and so do I.

It is the only way to reset the absolutely evil system in place today. No part of it can be saved, no Band-Aid solution exists to mitigate the terrible consequences awaiting us just around the corner.

In a world of death, the living are under threat. In such a world, ultimately, the only entitlement is death.

[Helene West]

But the world is being torn down, Ernie, but not by those you would like it to be by.
And the 'belligerent, bellicose, rude...irrational and confused' and i assume you mean the young, are just that and not much more. They are not strong nor are they independent. They have less opportunities for a livable wage than the previous two generations before them granted but for all their gadgets and games they didn't prepare for AI or automation so they don't have too much foresight as well. If most of them were offered a clerical job at Monsanto they'd take it just like their so-called 'sell-out' parents who were also young once and easily misguided.
I feel sorry for us all....