This is a pretty spot-on breakdown of why everything is going downhill, at least as far as my untrained eye can tell.
I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group—I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story.
http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-unhappy…
Whats going down hill?
George Carlin tore apart the self-esteem movement many times.
That's actually an interesting article...silver banana'd. I agree with the final three conclusions and especially agree with the social media aspect.
I do think there is something very shitty with Generation Y'ers, though I'll point out two anecdotal type points that are counterarguments to the article in a way:
1) One of the tenets of my life philosophy is that you can learn something valuable from every person that you meet, and I've usually found that to be true, even those whom I consider enemies (or sometimes especially so). In some ways, I view a good chunk of who I am as some combination of every person I've ever met. Given this, it suggests that maybe every person really is special in some way.
2) I don't know where this first originated, but the " Act As If " philosophy is often quite effective...when doing new things you don't have experience or expertise with, believing that you are in fact very good actually becomes self-fulfilling, probably due to the positive effects of confidence and self-esteem and lack of self-doubt.
I think if I ever have any rugrats I'm definitely going to pump up their expectations of their futures and confidence over their own potential instead of laying on tons of back-breaking sobering character-building. Yeah, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, but how strong do you want to have to be.
For the first part, I don't think it's that everyone is special, just that everyone is different. You learn things from the differences. Being different doesn't make someone special. What makes someone special is how they leverage their differences to their advantage and actions imo.
I do agree on the second point. There's a fine line between acting a certain way to put yourself in the right mindset and acting a certain way because you think you deserve something. I think a lot of our generation is in the second category.
Overall I don't think our generation in the US is completely fucked by any means. I do think there will be a much bigger difference (as we've already started to see) between the haves and have nots. A large part of this is due to what lengths the haves are willing to go to make their dreams happen. And the have nots will complain and talk about how they deserve this and that. A lot more people will be eating from someone else's spoon in our generation, but the vast majority of people will work for what they get.
Luck is also a huge factor in people's lives. A broken clock is correct twice a day.
I agree that luck plays a role, but the vast majority of people will need to be lucky AND work hard to be successful. People assume hard work will lead to success. That would be nice, but the reality is hard work gives you the chance to be successful. You might be, you might not. That's a risk you have to take.
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