motherjones:

kateoplis:

“Here are some broad descriptions about the generation known as Millennials: They’re narcissistic. They’re lazy. They’re coddled. They’re even a bit delusional.

Those aren’t just unfounded negative stereotypes about 80 million Americans born roughly between 1980 and 2000. They’re backed up by a decade of sociological research. The National Institutes of Health found that for people in their 20s, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is three times as high than the generation that’s 65 or older. In 1992, 80 percent of people under 23 wanted to one day have a job with greater responsibility; ten years later, 60 percent did. Millennials received so many participation trophies growing up that 40 percent of them think they should be promoted every two years – regardless of performance. They’re so hopeful about the future you might think they hadn’t heard of something called the Great Recession.”

The Me Generation

Well, they’re right about the “save us all” part, anyway.

Oh, like we’re any more self-obsessed than the Baby Boomers, who wanted to sit around and smoke dope, and now want to sit around and smoke dope and piss away what entitlement programs we do have. While they enjoy Medicare and Social Security, we can kiss all that goodbye. We live with our parents because the Baby Boomers and those immediately after run the banks and have been shafting us since we could walk. I don’t think we’re trying to save anybody but ourselves at this point.