Kinda Trite To Blame Everything On The Selfie, Right?

Things are more complicated than we tell ourselves.

Get bored during my workday a semi-decent amount, and sometimes open up some “news” apps on my phone and read a few things. Last week, I came across this little ditty by a Baby Boomer about how “selfies” ruined America, or some similar arguments. The article, or I guess you could call it an opinion piece or some such, is pretty good in the sense that it does admit that Boomers helped create the self-absorbed mess we find ourselves in. I always love it when Boomers shit on younger generations, because it’s like, um, weren’t you their parents or grandparents? Those are pretty big roles. You can help make someone a little less self-absorbed. Or you can bitch on Facebook. I mean, whatever.

Here is perhaps the most generic paragraph ever written on WSJ:

My generation — the baby boomers — made a catastrophic mistake. We watched our parents sacrifice, we struggled to move up, and we vowed our children would have it easier. When that time came, we gave them trophies for showing up. We meant well. But in freeing them of the need to struggle, we…