"Bloated with entitlement" makes me think that perhaps we treat the world that we live in like a new Garden of Eden, where we shouldn't have to work for anything and everything should be handed down to us from on high. People expect to be able to take and take without giving something back, and it's a long road out of this garden-of-eden-like way of thinking, to a place where people are ready to "toil and sweat to bring food from the ground" as Adam and Eve were made to upon expulsion from Eden in the Old Testament.
"Behold the bitten apple, the power of the tools
But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools
And it's a long road out of Eden"
suggests to me that we glory in the power that we have obtained by "eating the forbidden fruit" (perhaps a metaphor for gain through morally dubious means, for example war) but that this is nothing but foolish pride in power that we do little to deserve. We've bitten the apple and created our new Eden, and it doesn't look like we'll be leaving any time soon.
"Bloated with entitlement" makes me think that perhaps we treat the world that we live in like a new Garden of Eden, where we shouldn't have to work for anything and everything should be handed down to us from on high. People expect to be able to take and take without giving something back, and it's a long road out of this garden-of-eden-like way of thinking, to a place where people are ready to "toil and sweat to bring food from the ground" as Adam and Eve were made to upon expulsion from Eden in the Old Testament.
"Behold the bitten apple, the power of the tools But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools And it's a long road out of Eden" suggests to me that we glory in the power that we have obtained by "eating the forbidden fruit" (perhaps a metaphor for gain through morally dubious means, for example war) but that this is nothing but foolish pride in power that we do little to deserve. We've bitten the apple and created our new Eden, and it doesn't look like we'll be leaving any time soon.