Analysis Of Joel Stein's Article 'The New Greatest Generation'

The Millennials and Looking Towards the Future Millennials have come into a negative light in the eyes of many being blamed for problems in the world today. In Joel Stein’s article entitled The New Greatest Generation he believes they will instead of causing problems bring solutions to them and I agree with him. The millennials are a generation possessing much more resources and technology than any other generation before them by a long shot. The technological advances made from the 1980s to the early 2000 have opened a world of possibilities that millennials will and are taking advantage of to get further in life. Stein states at the beginning of his article that the millennials are narcissists, self-entitled, and indulgent. The argument is that compared the previous generations the millennials are comparatively worse by a long shot having technology do most of the work for them which makes them lazy. They also give into the obsession of fame and those that are famous by watching reality T.V. shows to keep informed on their lives. It is stated in Stein’s article that the ways the parents of the millennials has raised them has caused an issue where they have so much self-esteem that they expect they’ll get more than they actually will in terms of the workforce and greatly increased narcissism (Stein 28). It reached a point
He starts by saying he had been complaining the whole time about the narcissism that millennials display when he himself also displays a great deal by starting his article with I. Stein continues to list of a number of things that he complained about that the millennials do that he is also guilty of including being in the final round of the reality show Real World: London in 1995 (30). Then he explains how the traits that millennials display are not new to their generation and he been around since the time of Martin Luther and the