bad assertiveness training?

We live in a society in which assertiveness coaches, official or unofficial, professional or just well-meaning amateurs, urge their subjects to "Go for what you want! Don't let anyone stand in your way! You deserve better! Don't take 'no' for an answer! If someone tells you no, you just keep pushing and fighting for what you know is yours!"

Uncivil public behavior has been around forever, of course. But I wonder if the rise of expressive entitlement might be the result of such thoughtless social aggression?

Sipping on some nice lemon vodka.

How is everyone doing tonight?

I love you all...

Even though your fellow Texans are dyin'...

Fly-y-y down to Mexico-o-o-o-o

And here you are, a putrid Senator in Cancuuuuuuuun…

You hopped a plane when you saw the weather report

You got out of Dodge when you saw the weather report..."




Help me out with more lyrics...

The fanatical disciples of the free market live in mortal terror of the United States morphing into the Soviet Union.

In the Soviet Union, a tiny fraction of the population lived in privileged luxury and comfort, free from the terrors of an out-of-control police state, while the majority of the population lived a hand-to-mouth existence, always at risk for starving or freezing to death, while murderous police gangs roamed the streets, shooting citizens with impunity.

Which is pretty much the system we already have here right now.

So what is it the Ayn Rand types are afraid of again?...

I love you all...

...

No wait; science.

Science landed the Rover safely on the surface of Mars.

Give thanks to science!

We didn't carry his shitty, ugly neckties.

We let them know, politely, but firmly.

I don't know if they ever even went off the market.

Damn, but they were ugly, just like their namesake...

Put on your dancing shoes...