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Hollywood, our shared cultural bellweather has jettisoned humility as a virtue.

In a Hollywood script from last century, the cocky obnoxious spoiled brat would always get their comeuppance before the end of the movie.

In today's Hollywood, that character is the protagonist, often as not.

Nowhere is this cultural shift more evident than social media, where unearned arrogance is a default mode of discourse.