Wolfman wrote:

"Our Generation has screwed up. End of discussion."

I disagree. I don't think there is anything special about our generation, except that there are too many of us.

DA wrote:

"my generation, the Baby Boomers are a bunch of spoiled self-centered materialist children"

(my generation as well). I think this has always been true for all generations of humans. It is even true for all species.

DA further commented:

"Whereas our parents were willing to sacrifice everything ... WWII ..."

Sure many of our parents went through hell during WWII but my father, for example, volunteered. War was considered a grand adventure in those days, especially as a result of the depression. It was only once he'd witnessed the destruction of modern weapons and began to wonder who he was actually fighting for that questions arose.