Breaking the Cycle of Curse
Modern secular society has a fetish over youth. Which is a way of saying that the preceding generation has lost self-respect. There are few things more shameful than witnessing disrespect for elders. One of them is elders taken in self-loathing who attempt to cope by falling into an egregious adulation of youth. "We, in our generation, have failed miserably. We have been terrible. But the youth of today--well, to them belongs the future. They are wonderful." The adulation of youth serves as a pathetic attempt at atonement for the guilt of a generation which rebelled against God, but discovered when it was all too late that things had not worked out so well.
Jonah Goldberg describes it this way: