Peter Paul Rubens' Saturn Devouring His Son (1636)
The Greatest Generation defeated fascism so that their children, the Boomers, could become the most selfish generation in history, drown their descendents in debt, and plunge their nation into state dependency and … fascism. (Today we use more polite words such as crony capitalism, corporatism, public/private partnerships, et cetera, but they are technically the same.) A nation that devours its young will not survive.
People are now losing faith in the Me Generation. They brought it on themselves. Now it is up to their progeny to be better than they were in order to clean up their numerous messes. The hardest one to fix — and also the most devastating — will be the entitlement state they created which will be bankrupt by the time the Boomer’s progeny take their turn in the collection queue. They will have burned through all societal wealth and will leave nothing for future generations except a broken system teetering on war.
