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Christopher Lasch, an American historian and social critic, in his 1979 book ''The Culture of [[Narcissism]]'' contends that “every age has its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110102133213/http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/berkeley/papers/39.pdf From “Compensation” to “Childhood Wonder”: Why Parents Buy, Allison J. Pugh, Working Paper No. 39, May 2002]</ref>

Christopher Lasch, an American historian and social critic, in his 1979 book ''The Culture of [[Narcissism]]'' contends that “every age has its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110102133213/http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/berkeley/papers/39.pdf From “Compensation” to “Childhood Wonder”: Why Parents Buy, Allison J. Pugh, Working Paper No. 39, May 2002]</ref>

The baby boom generation is commonly referred to as the "me generation".<ref>Bristow, Jennie (2015). Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict. Macmillan Publishers.</ref> Christopher Lasch asserted that North American society in the 1970s was a narcissistic society that worshipped fame and consumption, feared dependency/aging, and possessed [[death]] [[anxiety]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110102133213/http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/berkeley/papers/39.pdf From “Compensation” to “Childhood Wonder”: Why Parents Buy, Allison J. Pugh, Working Paper No. 39, May 2002]</ref>  

The baby boom generation was commonly referred to as the "me generation".<ref>Bristow, Jennie (2015). Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict. Macmillan Publishers.</ref> Christopher Lasch asserted that North American society in the 1970s was a narcissistic society that worshipped fame and consumption, feared dependency/aging, and possessed [[death]] [[anxiety]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110102133213/http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/berkeley/papers/39.pdf From “Compensation” to “Childhood Wonder”: Why Parents Buy, Allison J. Pugh, Working Paper No. 39, May 2002]</ref>  

However, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester and published in the ''Journal of Personality'', baby boomers scored lower on measures of narcissism than [[millennial]]s do.<ref>[https://medium.com/@ketoenergy23/baby-boomers-and-narcissism-the-real-science-6347a96d56e1#:~:text=You%20might%20think%20that%20baby,of%20narcissism%20than%20millennials%20do. Baby Boomers and Narcissism: The Real Science]</ref>

However, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester and published in the ''Journal of Personality'' in 2023, baby boomers now scored lower on measures of narcissism their 40-odd year younger [[millennial]]s cohorts.<ref>[https://medium.com/@ketoenergy23/baby-boomers-and-narcissism-the-real-science-6347a96d56e1#:~:text=You%20might%20think%20that%20baby,of%20narcissism%20than%20millennials%20do. Baby Boomers and Narcissism: The Real Science]</ref>

[[Noam Chomsky]] criticized the concept of the "Me Generation" as being illegitimate and that it was motivated by a political agenda:

In 1988 [[Noam Chomsky]] criticized the concept of the "Me Generation" as being illegitimate and that it was motivated by a political agenda:

<blockquote>Where did that come from? What was the evidence that that was a fact? I think the evidence was 0. Teenagers had to be indoctrinated by saying 'You people are only interested in yourselves, you live in a culture of narcissism, you're the me generation'. Now every single teenager knows perfectly well that that's not true of ''me'' - but you're targeting people who are at a delicate stage of life, they don't quite know who they are... if they're different they think, 'Maybe there's something wrong with me, maybe I ought to be like everyone else'.<ref>{{Citation |title=Noam Chomsky interviewed by Canadian journalists at round table, 1988 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjIZEIDxFGc |access-date=2024-02-15 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>Where did that come from? What was the evidence that that was a fact? I think the evidence was 0. Teenagers had to be indoctrinated by saying 'You people are only interested in yourselves, you live in a culture of narcissism, you're the me generation'. Now every single teenager knows perfectly well that that's not true of ''me'' - but you're targeting people who are at a delicate stage of life, they don't quite know who they are... if they're different they think, 'Maybe there's something wrong with me, maybe I ought to be like everyone else'.<ref>{{Citation |title=Noam Chomsky interviewed by Canadian journalists at round table, 1988 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjIZEIDxFGc |access-date=2024-02-15 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>