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"As Stein himself points out, “in the US, millennials are the children of the baby boomers, who are also known as the Me generation.” Well, yes, let’s look at that a bit, shall we? In his excellent book Ill Fares the Land, Tony Judt makes a compelling argument that there’s a direct causal link between the individualism of the ‘60s and ‘70s and the hyper-individualism of the ‘80s and ‘90s – both are the product of a philosophy that placed the one above the many, the only difference being as the starry-eyed flower-waving of the hippie years ossified into the disinterested materialism of the yuppie years, any measure of idealism was replaced by flat-out, me-first cyncism. The result was that the baby boomers had it all, bless them – the pre-AIDS years of free love, the free education, the happy dilettantish flirtations with radicalism, the comfortable well-paid sinecures when the radicalism got tired, the big cars, the enduring sense of smugness, the tiresome Woodstock-centric mythology that still dominates popular cultural discourse. And now these assholes have the temerity to turn around and complain about their children? The millennials are the people who’ve inherited the hangover from the baby boomers’ party: a warming planet, a dysfunctional global financial system that rewards the rich and screws the poor, a polarized political class that’s moved so far to the right that a centrist like Barack Obama can be described with a straight face as “a socialist.” Millennials may be “narcissistic, materialistic and addicted to technology,” as Stein alleges early in his article; they’re also drowning in college debt, slaves to an internship “system” that demands ever-increasing work for no pay, and entrants into a job market that’s replaced employment rights with the “flexibility” of never being able to afford health insurance."

Why Time’s Millennials Cover Story Says More About Joel Stein Than It Does About Millennials

Way to go, Tom!

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Love it. My dad’s been talking about this for ages and ages; he’s from the earliest segment of the Boomers (born in ‘47), and because of his work (which involved, among other things, dealing with the issue of the tenure system) has consistently talked about his generation as completely fucking up the world vis a vis their own kids. He once told a roomful of people about the time he mentioned social security as something that might be a part of my life many decades in the future and I just laughed at him, because no WAY Social Security will outlive either the Boomers or their refusal to pay fully into it.

And it’s striking to me—someone at the tail end of Gen X—how incredibly *encompassing* the whole thing is. I don’t know many people younger than me who left college hoping for more than a job (as opposed to a career) at best. No one seems to expect shit from our society; there’s an assumption that it will fail them. There’s *not*, however, the assumption that their parents will fail them, which is interesting. It speaks to the whole materialistic/helicopter parent/spoiling/whatever ideas that Stein writes about; it’s a sheltering thing, very ‘I take care of my own (and ONLY my own)’, and then people are surprised when there are no jobs and their kid has to live off their retirement funds? I mean, come on…

And of course, that only reinforces how incredibly segregated both this ‘trend’ and the economy of this society are as a whole. There’s a really good reason the cover pic was of a White girl…

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