AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
This isn't a great term, I mean a stance that is emotionally negative, stunted, wretched. Sinful maybe. Narcissism, pride, sloth are anti-stances, more or less. "Thinking the world owes you a living" is one I deal with
there are defenders; seems to be practically a requirement to be a hip artist type
My role model here is Doestevky's Underground Man, whose says early on:
Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.