Summary Of The New Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All

Throughout the years, the older generations –The Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, and Generation X—have viewed Millennials as the lowest generation. They have illustrated this adverse title of the millennials that the world views to be true, but in late May of 2013, Joel Stein, a product of Generation X, wrote, “The New Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All” towards the older generations to prove them wrong. This article attempts to persuade Stein’s audience to believe that Millennials are not what the world has described them to be. Throughout his article, Stein informs the audience that although statistics portray Millennials to be narcissistic, he has faith that the Millennials are the future. While Stein did use data in

He used statistical data to support the negative portion of the article where he explained why “The incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as for the generation that’s now 65 or older” (Stein 28). In Stein’s articles, readers may find a hand full of humor embedded in his writing, yet in “The New Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All,” his humor follows his tone and greets his audience with unhealthy humor. Stein uses words and phrases in his writing, for example, “ghetto­fabulous” (28) to create humor. Although some readers may believe it was a strategy for his argumentative article, others believe it overwhelmed the article, which leads to confusing the readers on Stein’s

Stein starts the article, “I am about to do what old people have done throughout history: call those younger than me lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow” (28). He uses the negative words and tone that the older generations have used to describe Millennials for years to obtain the older generations’ attention. Toward the older generation, this article is written with data that can support what they have been preaching since Millennials were born, which lures his audience to continue to read. Therefore, leading readers to the purpose of the article and displaying why the world should believe in Millennials. Stein also balances his article well by utilizing his arguments that support and oppose the success of the millennials and order to mask his true message. However, in the beginning, Stein provides more information against the Millennials, engulfing the topic of “The New Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All,” wherein the second half he talks about himself and convey his opinions about the millennials.
Overall, Stein’s article “The New Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All,” is ineffective. Stein’s purpose of the article is there but not clear throughout. His hypocrisy in the article overwhelms the readers with confusion. The amount of hypocrisy may allow the readers to wonder why the beginning of the article was written and supported by statistics