ReGeneration Page #3

What is the 'Me' Generation?

On a Volleyball game, you're a team.

And then in this it's just me.

Teenagers who gossip

are actually more popular.

People have come to expect

global climate change.

Breaking entertainment stories

you need to hear.

The first thing I'm unpacking

is a box of condoms.

Poor and unemployed...

I think the notion of individualism

has a long history in the United States.

And things that are good

for the community such as

preserving the environment

or having decent wages for everyone,

or have looked at the world and said,

"I want to change this

and I am going to make the time"

those sort of societal values

get thrown by the wayside.

It's a generation that

has no sense of the future,

no sense of civic responsibility.

I don't mean this as a criticism.

I believe the media

and the society are generating this.

It also has to do with

how we're just selfish.

It's always about,

"Me, me, me,"

and we kind of take all the things

that we have for granted.

Most definitely it has become

a 'Me' Generation,

and I think that we all are taught

self confidence and...

People have a sense of entitlement.

We're the most important

person in the world

and that transfers over into adulthood.

There'd been a movement for a while

about individualism that

really began in the '70s,

but that wasn't applied

to kids until the early '80s,

when the self-esteem

programs hit the schools.

And if you look in the media as well,

and in popular culture,

they we're taught things like,

"believe in yourself",

"you can be anything you want to be"

and putting yourself first.

It's a total lie,

it's a total lie. There are two lies

in the self-esteem movement:

The first is "you can be

whatever you want to be",

which is just demonstrably untrue.

And the second is that

your value is innate.

In other words, you're a wonderful

person no matter what you do,

you're a great person.

I tell my children every day

that they're special.

I tell them that I love them,

I tell them that they can do anything.

But I also am realistic with them.

I tell them that they can do anything

if they prepare themselves,

if they become a certain type of person

and have an understanding of history.

We live in a society that prizes

politeness over righteousness.

If you don't take the time

to tell them in the house

what their outside behavior should be,

then it's your fault when

they're outside acting a fool.

And then they grow up to be a**holes.

There are a lot of enabling parents.

The thing about parent and kids

today is that they're much closer

and the communication is much

more open than it has been in the past.

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