Augustine's Art

A culture that steals from the young by monopolising their peak productive years through price gouging and egregious rent seeking, charging twice, thrice or even four times what they paid for essential services, is operating an inverted structure where the old siphon from the young by leeching off their vitality like a desiccating parasite, when they should be nurturing the next generation rather than sacrificing it. There is no greater sign of narcissism in a culture, be it western materialist short-term greed or eastern self-sacrificing parent worship where the child is viewed as a unit of consumption to better and improve the lot of elders, rather than something that those elders should be cultivating and sacrificing for. The young of today have every right to be mad. They would be mad not to be.