How America Became a Country Full of Assholes

"The asshole, as I define it, is the guy who allows himself special advantages in cooperative life out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people." In other words, he's the individual—generally male, although as John Cleese candidly admits, his mother probably was one too—who thinks the general rules don't apply to them because they're somehow smarter, better, or more special than their fellow citizens.

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