Have we finally reached the point where narcissism is no longer an epidemic but an institution?  Is this the legacy of the “Me Generation” of the ’70s, bequeathing a cultural norm of such enormous self-absorption that self-absorption has itself become a virtue?

Joe Holleman asks the question.  I fear that the answer is self-evident.  The mantra of our generation has become:

Ask not what you can do for others; ask what you can demand that others must do for you.