Must every generation reject the knowledge of the last generation, and then embrace the ignorance or stupidity of their own time?
We are reliving the mistakes of all the previous generations.
Mankind has progressed this far by thinking, let’s not stop now.
Young folk, every song, every art, almost every thought you have, has already been done, drawn, or said before by the old folks you ridicule. If you listen to them read about them and then start to help them change the world with your own determination, we could all live in harmony. That is unless you like anarchy and don't like harmony, peace, and freedom.
Yes, but we must first research that time and find the mistakes and why.., that is the pragmatism, and the preparation of the human to evolve. Save yourself by knowing more than your predecessors and predators. But also do not become arrogant, because you know what you know, because they paved the way with their knowledge. Move forward but leave the past some recognition for what they have given you.
A very interesting theory about God is that he, she, or it, is/are sitting up there laughing at us and placing situations in our way where we are stupid and then inviting all the angles to watch the funny show.
The twenty-seven-year-old pipsqueaks doing things that to them, are marvelous creations without understanding the consequences of their actions if they are flawed.