A hot button topic in the news:
Study: College Students More NarcissisticBefore everyone flames me into orbit as a block of ice, I think this article is pretty full o'shit. Baby Boomers accusing another generation of being narcissistic is more than a little ironic, in a "pot, calling the kettle black" kind of way, if you ask me. The worst part of this notion is that it's the generation these same narcissistic Baby Boomers raised, they're pointing their arthritic fingers at. I am disgusted to be associated with this bunch of losers by my age and my age alone is about the only parallel I will admit to. You can't really blame youth for fucking up the world by running things into the ground when they haven't even been running things, yet.
I do think this will make for a fascinating bit of two-way banter from some of us. One other comment I read from one of my cyber-friends in a news group:
Wait until today's youth gets their tax bill in 20 years for all of the baby boomers that failed to save for retirement because the boomers have wasted more disposable income on superficial crap than any generation in the history of the world. Not to mention the bill for the baby boomer legislators that are responsible for a fiscal crisis that is embarrassing for the world's biggest economy and richest nation. I'll bet today's youth will be very vocal when they have to clean up the mess of the generation that judged success based on a BMW and SUV in the driveway. Whatever supposed "idealism" the 60's youth had went out the window and without question they have proven that ideals mean nothing when it is time to get paid.
Hopefully, my kids can help clean up the budget crisis, the polluted environment, and the culture of consumption that has been created for them.
He and I see eye-to-eye, most of the time. As lame as it seems, I couldn't have said it better, myself. I see these parents going all over creation, dragging their kids from one drop-off activity to the other and, half the time, the only thing these parents even know about the activity is when they need to pick up the kids, again. They're too busy with their own lives to worry about what their kids are doing.