Let’s have a conversation today about the peculiarly American sense of entitlement. Where do you see it most? Cultures like ours need checks and balances or the people with power will dominate everything. So we have what is claimed to be a nation of laws, but we also have a president with powers, a congress and house of representatives with powers, a supreme court with powers – and add to this what many would call the administrative state and we have a series of power blocs.
Our youngest son will start law school at Harvard next week. Both our sons went to the University of Texas/Austin. Neither of their parents come from anything resembling the blue blood or monied class.
We did expect that if our sons worked hard and largely stayed out of trouble they would be rewarded accordingly. Is this sort of expectation appropriate? In one sense, yes. In another I wonder whether one feels entitled or deserving because one has done the right sort of things. The Bible certainly doesn’t make that sort of promise.
As America has expanded both in land mass and population, it does seem that the sense of entitlement has equally expanded beyond the sorts of the privileged few you described so well in your post.
It is my experience that pastors often expect people to supply them with what they want - because they are the pastor.
Our youngest son will start law school at Harvard next week. Both our sons went to the University of Texas/Austin. Neither of their parents come from anything resembling the blue blood or monied class.
We did expect that if our sons worked hard and largely stayed out of trouble they would be rewarded accordingly. Is this sort of expectation appropriate? In one sense, yes. In another I wonder whether one feels entitled or deserving because one has done the right sort of things. The Bible certainly doesn’t make that sort of promise.
As America has expanded both in land mass and population, it does seem that the sense of entitlement has equally expanded beyond the sorts of the privileged few you described so well in your post.