When integrity and ethics are too heavy to shoulder for those in positions of responsibility and become nothing but a weight to be flung contemptuously into the ditch...
then we're ALWAYS going to be effed. Or at the very least perennially bent over in obscene supplication. Not easy to make great strides all hunched over with yer proverbial underwear around your ankles.
Thing is, whatever the generation...a disturbing number of people will never understand that.