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If you young folks will take advice from anyone, after all, I don\u2019t know if you’ve seen it \u201d\u201d this week\u2019s Time Magazine called you \u201clazy, entitled narcissists,\u201d\u009d who are part of the \u201cMe, Me, Me\u201d\u009d generation. So self-obsessed – tweeting your Vines, hashtagging your Spotifys and Snapchatting your YOLOs – your generation needs everything to be about you. And that’s very upsetting to us baby boomers because self-absorption is kind of our thing. We’re the original “Me Generation,” we made the last 50 years all about us. We took all the money. We soaked up all the government services. And we’ve deep-fried nearly everything in the ocean. It may seem that all that\u2019s left for you is unpaid internships, Monday to Tuesday mail delivery, and thanks to global warming, soon Semester at Sea will mean sailing the coast of Ohio.<\/p>\n
Now, in our defense, in my generation\u2019s defense \u201d\u201c how were we supposed to know that you were coming? We thought it went like this: every successive generation of mankind \u201d\u201c and then us! Ta-dah \u201d\u201c roll credits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n