“ME ME ME” Generation: Top 5 ‘TIME’ Magazine Cover Parodies
“It seems not a lot of people are impressed with TIME’s latest magazine cover, dubbing millennials as the ‘ME ME ME’ generation. Although there’s a subtitle that suggests despite selfies and living in the basement with parents, past the narcissism, millennials have the power to save the world. Still, the nature of the cover itself can be easily interpreted to suggest that millennials are the only generation to have suffered from crippling egotism, when that simply isn’t the case. As a story in the Atlantic points out, every generation has been the ‘Me’ generation at some point. The only major difference now is that millennials have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to highlight their me-ness. But a lot of people are pissed off. For example, as Tom Hawking wrote for Flavorwire, “Millennials may be ‘narcissistic, materialistic and addicted to technology,’ as Stein alleges early in his article; they’re also drowning in college debt, slaves to an internship ‘system’ that demands ever-increasing work for no pay, and entrants into a job market that’s replaced employment rights with the ‘flexibility’ of never being able to afford health insurance.” The same sentiments have been expressed in a viral Internet meme that both mocks and criticizes TIME’s cover. Here are the top five.”
via: policymic
Do you ever look at someone and then look at yourself and get sad
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