I don't want to belabor the point, especially because I don't think you've said anything to make it appear you are actually the sort of person who is suffering from the "entitlement disease." But what concerns me is that, as a culture, we've come to accept a level of entitlement that makes it OK for even a reasonable person like you to want something that you are not entitled to. (And I'm not speaking any broader than the circumstances at hand.) I think we have come to expect sound bites, photo ops and all the other extracurricular obligations that have been thrust on our "stars" to the point that there is nothing genuine about their emotions or actions. I think we can all agree that if Bette had wanted to say something, nobody was going to stop her: no producer, no publicist, no agent, no manager.
Admittedly, what struck a nerve was that word. I don't think you are a horrible person for having your feeling (as I might for some of the extreme cases of entitlement we've witnessed), but I also don't think we can write it off as pure fantasy as per the other poster's middle aged hallucination :-) |
