We Are Raising a Generation of Deluded Narcissists
23rd January 2013
Psychologist Jean Twenge, the lead author of the analysis, is also the author of a study showing that the tendency toward narcissism in students is up 30 percent in the last thirty-odd years. These data are not unexpected. I have been writing a great deal over the past few years about the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories.
I’ve thought that ever since the 1970s and the popularity of ‘boom boxes’ among the Underclass who considered their lives sufficiently important to require a sound track.
January 24th, 2013 at 05:26
Perhaps we are raising a generation of deluded narcissists because so many of their Boomer parents are, too.