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

[shag carpet bomb]

quibble - of course your parents were never promised the dream either.
Reagan and the depressions of the 80s broke it, and it was
definitively broken in the early 90s with the white collar layoffs
that finally sent the message that no collar, blue or white, was safe
from a good and proper "rightsizing".


> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/our_delusions_of_grandeur_will_save_the_world_20111017/
>
> “I’m going to be on your show some day.” “No, no you’re not.” An
> exchange
> between a middle-class “Millennial” and Bill Maher offered up as an
> anecdote
> to describe a generation on HBO’s “Real Time.” It’s kind of true.
> We’re
> excessively confident, thinking of ourselves like protagonists in a
> bildungsroman. Not that with SparkNotes and Wikipedia to rely on,
> we’ve had
> to actually read Goethe. 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.
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