Me generation

noun

1. the generation, originally in the 1970s, characterized by self-absorption; in the 1980s, characterized by material greed

Example Sentences

Authentic videotape from that time and the shallow, kitschy music take you back to the time of the “Me Generation” and every low-brow cliché of the 70s through the Reagan years.

From Salon

She brought up a 2013 Time magazine cover story about millennials titled “The Me Me Me Generation”; at that point, reasoned Zoladz, the inclination was for the conversation to be about millennials’ behavior without examining the root causes behind it.

From Los Angeles Times

We defined the “Me” generation.

From Salon

No member of the Me Generation, the top editor of the Washington Post during the Donald Trump era figured he had plenty to write about without returning to his Tampa, Fla., childhood or his formative journalistic years on the Left Coast.

From Los Angeles Times

“The Aftermath” is not so concerned with those, though a few get fleeting mention, like the special edition of the board game Trivial Pursuit whose questions — “Who played Mr. Novak?” — are no longer relevant, and Tom Wolfe’s famous article on the “Me” Generation that led with a woman complaining about her hemorrhoids at an EST session on the carpeted floor of the Ambassador Hotel, which Bump associates with closet copies of “Doonesbury” and Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination.

From New York Times