The Age of Sentiment (also known as the Entitlement): a sickly-sweet period of the all-too-recent future, exemplified by the celebration of self-pity, the reverence of victimhood and the sanctification of sentimentality. In these times of blood and honey, modish received opinion is taken as gospel truth, medicalisation of the self provides a sense of identity, and self-obsession histrionically masquerades as self-examination… because ‘the unexamined life’ (to misinterpret Socrates) ‘is not worth living’.
