Gen-Yers are on the razor's edge of a complete worldwide upheaval.

This is another attitude that grates: the notion that there's some discontinuity of suck that waited around to bite you kidz in the ass. Remember the kerfuffle about Reinhart and Rogoff? And how they said that there was an "inflection point" in economic growth caused by too much debt, when in fact there was a trendline? The two are not the same. Yeah, things are rugged out there but you grew up in a society that chose to bring back measles... we grew up in a society that fully expected armageddon any day now. And shit - the 'boomers invented Earth Day and environmentalism, so they ain't all bad. I sure didn't have to deal with a draft to fight a useless war in Southeast Asia; they did.

Reinhart and Rogoff titled their book "This Time It's Different" implying that somehow, our economy is a special little flower when in fact it's just a data point on a trendline. I know it's not nearly as inspirational to think that you're just more of the same, but it's also not nearly as alienating as claiming you're one of a kind.