[ImaGraftedBranch]

I know what happened:

“Not me, specifically, but the Great Me, the Mighty Me, the Universal Me.”

All of this self-centered behavior started right after.....the Higgs Field was discovered. Everything was fine when we merely postulated the existence of Higgs, but the act of discovering its reality released it from Pandora’s box, and they settled into the bodies of college students.

Don’t blame these poor kids. They are just big Higgs fields now.

[jmcenanly]

Actually, it has been going on for much longer than that, as we can see in this cartoon clip from the early 1970's about the time when the parents of today's college students were small children. This has been going on for generations.