A year ago, David McCullough, a Massachusetts high school teacher, became an overnight sensation when he told graduating seniors that "despite . . . that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, [and] no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you . . . you're nothing special."
A year later, in its May 20th edition, Time Magazine has weighed in on the subject. In a schizoid piece, it calls "Millennials," those born between 1980 and 2000, "lazy entitled narcissists," yet it insists that they somehow will "save us."
Author Joel Stein, who's forty-three, begins with some sobering data. For instance, according to the National Institutes of Health, the incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is three times as high among twenty-somethings than among those over sixty-five.
Likewise, the average college student in 2009 scored significantly higher on a narcissism scale than his counterparts in 1982.
The high self-regard doesn't end with graduation: forty percent of all Millennials believe that they should be promoted every two years regardless of their actual job performance. Read more
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