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A cultural value indicative of 21st Century societies, especially amongst First World societies. Self-empowerment promotes the individual's pleasures and comforts as the ultimate goal to life or 'key' to happiness, encouraging behavior that satisfies one's ego and bodily pleasures. Ironically, in the long-term, this mentality is counterintuitive, as it creates a society of narcissism, self-indulgence and self-glorification.
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