<p>Are</a> We in a Narcissism Epidemic? | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com </p>
<p>"residential advisers at Southern lament students disregarding curfews, playing dance music until 3 a.m., demanding new room assignments at a moment's notice and failing to understand why professors won't let them make up an exam they were too hung over to take"</p>
<p>Yes, and I have the neighbors to prove it.</p>
<p>“residential advisers at Southern lament students disregarding curfews, playing dance music until 3 a.m., demanding new room assignments at a moment’s notice and failing to understand why professors won’t let them make up an exam they were too hung over to take”</p>
<p>That isn’t narcissism. Narcissism, along with hypocrisy, is one of those terms that is rarely diagnosed correctly in general conversation.</p>
<p>“billion-dollar Ponzi schemes” That wasn’t even our generation.</p>
<p>It’s difficult for me to believe that people still take these stories seriously. They come out every five years like clockwork and, guess what, the newest crop fo college students are historically self-centered. And the author of the piece is not.</p>
<p>The narcissism epidemic began around 1945 when we Baby Boomers first came on the scene. IMO the echo boomers are less so.</p>
<p>“Growing up, my literary heroines were those who, like me, struggled to be good: Jo from “Little Women,” Harriet the spy, Laura Ingalls and Pippi Longstocking.”</p>
<p>I don’t remember “Harriet the spy” struggling to be good. She was motivated primarily by curiosity. And using Pippi Longstockings as an example . . . seriously? Pippi had no social boundaries and would be all for asking to retake a test . . . and would insist on letting her horse have a copy too! </p>
<p>I find the article smug and ridiculous. Perhaps the author is the one with the inflated sense of self-worth.</p>