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> If you can't change the world
> Change yourself
> If you can't change the world
> Change yourself
> And if you can't change yourself
> Change your world.
Move. Find some middling Rust Belt city with an interesting scene that's not in an economic boom. Some people just don't like booming, growing areas, and that's fine.
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You don't know what her friends and dating life have looked like.
Indeed, I do not. That does not make the article any less obnoxious and narcissistic, however. It reads like the musings of a lonely and alienated person dissatisfied with the world around them and with delusions of entitlement. If that sounds familiar to a subculture that was the subject of extensive debate over a recent tragedy, well, it is.
I'm sure a lot of men don't want massively fat women for example, and if that's honestly how they feel that's fine. No-one's got the right to tell you who you ought to be attracted to.
Was she lonely? Yeah, probably. Was she alienated? To a degree, yeah - from the dating scene she'd like to be part of. Was she dissatisfied? Yes. And all those things are normal and okay when your preferences aren't met.
Is she entitled? Yes, to an extent. Pretty much everyone is. We let someone through in traffic and we consider it rude if they don't wave back, we hold the door open for someone we expect them to thank us. When you grow up with a culture you come to expect a certain action reaction transaction - what you might call grace or good manners. But it doesn't seem to me that she was being abnormally entitled based on the fact she thought it odd for someone to ask that she read Neuromancer before they'd go on a date with her.
Nothing lost, nothing gained. Have fun on this planet, don't get too worked up about dating.