Research has discovered that large amounts of young people are developing an entitlement complex.
The psychological trend comes from the belief that you are superior to others and are more deserving of certain things.
This form of narcissism has some significant consequences such as disappointment and a tendency to lash out.
Psychology Today reports that some examples of entitlement range from the disregard of rules, freeloading, causing inconveniences and like to assume the role of leader when working in groups.
So called millennials, who were born roughly between 1988 and 1994, tend to have this characteristic as a 2016 study found.
Dr Joshua Grubbs, who conducted the research, which was published in the Psychological Bulletin is quoted by Spring as saying:
“ At extreme levels, entitlement is a toxic narcissistic trait, repeatedly exposing people to the risk of feeling frustrated, unhappy and disappointed with life.
What happened starting in 1984? Reagan’s influx of debt spending had just begun to make its way into the general population after the economic nadir in 1982. This might indicate that either the human machine had adapted to see that level of resource availability as normal by 1994, or things have not been as rosy as we would believe if we just accepted the numbers we were told after that point.
Interestingly, 1994 was the year they began “adjusting” the unemployment numbers, to make it appear employment was higher than it was relative to prior numbers. You can see that in 1995 the Misery index plummets due to the change in the calculating method, however despite that change the Misery Index spikes considerably in 1996, and then is roughly stable from then to 2010, even rising some. That the entitlement, relating to birthrate, shows such a close correlation down to the year, makes you wonder if the mother’s nutritional status during pregnancy and breast feeding, (and her offspring’s related cognitive sensations of satiety or hunger, and exposure to maternal stress/hunger hormones), plays an integral role in the foundational r or K-status of the offspring later in life.
It is also interesting to notice what the Conservative Policy Mood is doing during that point, showing that even as these kid’s environments were molding their brains to be leftist, adults living then were turning left as well, due to copious resource availability. The developmental foundation of the child mirrors the environmental molding of the parents. Pity for them they weren’t born at the beginning of a glut, but rather the end. That’s no fun.
Notice how “entitlement” carries such a negative connotation within our population. To be entitled is seen as obnoxious, and a psychological defect. Yet what is entitlement? It is a conditioned expectation that resources will be free. Where does it come from? A history of experience which teaches that resources will always be free.
Entitlement is merely the free-resource-availability-expecting aspect of an r-selected reproductive strategy. But it is funny how people instinctively seek to ostracize r-strategists, and clearly recognize the various aspects of it from sluttery, to entitlement, to poor parenting are all marks of inferiority.
It is why if r/K Theory catches on, and attaches all of that to each individual aspect of the leftist ideology in every political science class in the nation, our battle for the minds of the young generation will be over before it began.
Spread r/K Theory, because the r-selected strategy is entitled
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