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The entitled millenial trope seems tied to the death of religion. Infinite participation trophies was a stand-in for the loss of infinite love. This source of infinite fake-ness created an existential need and thirst for infinite real-ness.

Though 'religion' probably died even longer ago. The stand-in for religion and the source of love was a strong sense of family/community and older forms of identity signaling like religion or country or race. What actually died was this sense of community.

Wonder if religion can be redefined as "that which brings about a sense of community."

I also suspect the production of said millenials was an attempt at recreating a source of love. E.g. by loving your children you can eventually have that love reflected back at you.

This is complicated because the source of love can be distorted and the reflection of a distorted mirror further distorts. (The mirror often being distorted by the original distortion of love)