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<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>
Research indicates that although some people remain just as narcissistic with age or become more narcissistic with age, generally people become less narcissistic with age.<ref>[https://neurosciencenews.com/narcissism-aging-14956/ Do narcissistic traits wane as people age?], Neuroscience News, 2019<ref><ref>[https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2019/me-me-me-how-narcissism-changes-throughout-life#:~:text=The%20research%2C%20published%20in%20Psychology,over%20time%20and%20with%20age. Me, me, me! How narcissism changes throughout life], Michigan State University</ref> Therefore, most baby boomers and millenials will become less narcissistic with age.
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