I guess we all think the previous generation knew nothing when we were young and idealistic. I remember my dad telling me, when I was 18 and arrogant, "lady, you think you know it all now, but you'll spend the rest of your life realising you didn't". He was spot on. Perhaps we can forgive the young their mistaken views about our generation. They can't know as they didn't live when we did to be able to know.