Every generation presents the symptoms you list. The newest generations are no more asinine than the Silent Generation, the Boomers, the Greatest or their parents before.<p>Protesting child labor in beginning of the 20th century? How beholden to the whims of mainstream society, how desperate those people must have been for social acceptance that they protested such a common and accepted practice.<p>How were the older generations so incapable of independent thought to be easily conned into warring in the Middle East? The Drug Wars? Vietnam? Korea? Prohibition? Wars in Texas&#x2F;Mexico and with pre-existing indigenous peoples?<p>How on earth did massive, completely non-functional flares in the legs of pants, or oversized suitcoats, or cravats ever make sense?<p>When we learn to love the awareness and consciousnesses around us we can love the change for simply being, instead of decrying it for being different from what we&#x27;ve previously experienced.