[JohnFen]

> my generation has done a pretty good job of screwing things up, and it’s fairly understandable, that the succeeding generations have some resentment, about that.

(I think we're of the same generation.)

I agree. But I also remember being young and realizing that my parent's generation also did a pretty good job of screwing things up, leading to resentment in our generation, and a fairly overt sentiment that once the old farts have moved on, we'd be the generation that puts things right.

Funny, that.

I rather suspect that every generation thinks like this.

As the truism goes, every generation thinks both that they invented sex and that they're the last generation before the fall of civilization.