interesting article.  however, i don't know if is so much of an overdose of self-esteem as a severe underdose of community and cooperative skills learning.  Our culture takes gleeful satisfaction at the failure of others...telling me i'm special is good; at the expense of others..well...

Well, let's see here.
I pretty much follow Strauss and Howe. My observation is that what are
being called Gen Y are NOT individualistic at all, but rather extremely
group-oriented. It is true they were all told how Special they were, and
they all played in games where there were rules, uniforms, coaches and
umpires with no one keeping score so that at the end everyone got an award
and had ice cream together.
They expect the world to play by the rules--they have never had one minute
of spare time, running from soccer to violin lessons to Mandarin practice
to No Child Left Alone schools.
And if there are no Rules for them to follow, and no one fairly enforcing
them (ie., the real world), then they turn to each other for guidance and
have little respect for Authorities and Experts who tell them what to do
outside of a consensual situation. That's what My Space and all the rest
are for, it seems to me.
Jim Dator