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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;" class="">You may get some insights into what is going on here from:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;" class="">Aaron James, _Assholes_: A Theory (Doubleday, 2012, 221 pp.)</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;" class="">James is a Harvard Ph.D. in philosophy & a professor of philosophy at UCal Irvine. </div>
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According to James, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asshole" class="">
<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0645ad" class="">asshole</span></a> ‘allows himself to enjoy special advantages in social relations out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people.’ “</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>“Do you know who I am?"</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>A quintessential asshole question</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>— from the epigraph</span></div>
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