THEME:
The systematic decline of Reason and Common sense in favor of Entitled Emotions.

I am writing this piece as firsthand experience, rather than storyform. I am giving you a piece of my mind. Not in a confrontational sort of way, but objectively and honestly and to the point at which my reason has led me to believe.
Systematic decline of common sense and reason was necessary for elite political and religious agendas to place themselves on an untouchable throne while pettiness squabbles at their feet. Control is simple as long as people stagnate in the unreality of whimsey and relic Gods that force dogmatic practices, requiring people to think less and believe more. I will not mince words for this piece, that would be an injustice to the thought behind it. Entitlement is, in it’s full defined nature, the lack of reason and common sense, therefore, the absence of. Society’s decline into entitlement began with religion, in my understanding, but it was exacerbated by the over identification and misrepresentation of natural laws that exist as a constant. By this I mean to target specifically those that would tell you there are over 100 genders and counting. I mean to address the groups and organizations that would vehemently declare truths that are based in the feeling nature of people which relagates us to children on the societal stage. Religion believes that we are God’s children, and those who have it behave in a childish way of belief which is not founded in their natural environment but in supernatural sources which place a power over themselves to dictate the life they should live. Compare this to the organizations that do the same. They would have us deny reason to insist on “safe places” where feelings can be felt but not logically ironed out to the core of their trigger. I have thought long and hard on this, as one who struggles with depression, I often ask myself “what is real” and therefore must go through my own checklist of reasonable and logical possibilities in order to recover myself from a mental disorder that constantly lies to me.
It appears to me that mental illness is at the heart of our loss of reason. But not on an individual level as I have just illustrated above, using myself as an example. Societally, we have become mentally ill. The focus of group thinking, has ultimately usurped the individual’s understanding of reason. Groups of people have gained power over reasonable conversation with tantrums and outbursts that help no one and reach nothing concrete that can be built upon as a foundation for growth and progress. We are building concepts on marshmallow foundations in order to spare people the pain of looking deeply within to the nature of themselves and taking right action to correct their own behavior. Lack of responsibility has led to entitlement.
Entitlement is a symptom of a system that no longer values life or the individual and I have been saying this before I became aware of Ayn Rand’s work and beliefs. It seemed like common sense to me at the time and still does.
For an individual to grow up in a world that requires nothing of them, but to believe in something that has no root in reality, that individual will not be able to logically understand how they can participate in the world, therefore they will suffer, they will despair and they will latch onto anything that “supports” them, even if it is not rooted in reality. Ultimately their “supports” will fall and they will go to the “next thing” and the next and the next… and there are that many unreality based systems in place to shuffle a lost people around in, to keep them ultimately out of reality and living in a world where they are easily controlled.
So, in conclusion to this dissertation, in which I name many sources to “blame” for the fall of our common sense, I must go back to the individual. It is up to each and every one of us to “reality check” ourselves with what is right, just, moral and valuable. Our world will always tell us what those are, but when the world has gone mad, and we must still live within it as a sane member, it will mean going against the “mob consciousness” and holding true to virtues that bring meaning to our individual lives. The loss of common sense, the social decline of society into an entitled world has many supports and factors. The largest being the individual's lack of truth seeking and the ability to withstand the onslaught of unreality based beliefs that lure us into false thinking.
Thank you. I hope I have addressed this well, even though it is not quite what I set out to write, it is what came to me as the most logical response to this topic.
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Ayn Rand defined reason as "the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses"