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To: Incorrigible
She has spent more than a decade gathering data on what makes this group different from generations that came before. The results are the subject of her new book, "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before."

More confident because they weren't the providers of trash reading, didn't waste a decade of their lives conjuring it, and are more miserable for being pounded with it via someone who focus's like a LASER beam on information that is worthless except for bending minds and self gratification.

24 posted on 04/21/2006 1:03:11 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: EGPWS

"More confident because they weren't the providers of trash reading, didn't waste a decade of their lives conjuring it, and are more miserable for being pounded with it via someone who focus's like a LASER beam on information that is worthless except for bending minds and self gratification."

Damn right. "Entitled to success without working for it"

That sounds mysteriously like SocialSecurity, and we all damn well know that GenX was, like, totally responsible for creating _that_ program.


31 posted on 04/21/2006 1:32:34 PM PDT by Jason Kauppinen
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