With all the things going on, it is natural to sit back and ponder; how did it happen, on whose watch did all of this occur? One natural strata of people to blame is my generation of baby boomers, and in his book, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America, (Hachette, New York, 2017), author Bruce Gibney does just that. In fact, he argues that the baby boomer generation are technically sociopaths, having the clinical symptoms of this psychological disorder, such as extreme narcissism.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-13/did-baby-boomers-ruin-america
https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Sociopaths-Boomers-Betrayed-America/dp/0316395781/?tag=misesinsti-20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh6hesHk6yE
The lack of empathy, prudence and genuine altruism among boomers does stand out. However, what we have also seen is that later generations also have the same sociopathological trait seeing themselves as unique precious snowflakes; not all, but it is something which is very common.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15597300.how-the-cult-of-narcissism-is-killing-our-humanity/
https://mic.com/articles/40753/7-reasons-millennials-are-such-narcissists#.h4fhwRURf
https://www.indy100.com/article/millennial-narcissistic-gen-y-narcissism-scale-study-7588141