[lbo-talk] me, in Truthdig: Our Delusions of Grandeur Will Save the World

[Carrol Cox]

On 10/17/2011 4:18 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
>
>> We have no discernible gifts or achievements to our
>> name, but our parents tell us that we’re going to be just great. We use the
>> “like” button on Facebook to tell one another the same thing. Narcissists to
>> the core, we believe the hype.
>
> Elsewhere, the story of your generation:
>
> http://nymag.com/news/features/my-generation-2011-10/

This is probably quite wrong. But the phrase "to the core" turns it from 
probably being wrong to arrant nonsense not fit for civilized discoruse.

Carrol