Elderly

Elderly people and their "back in my day" attitudes get to me. They forgot what it is the recent generations are trying to avoid: A repeat of their generation. You hear all of these influential people being compared to Hitler--well, you know who was Hitler back in their day? Hitler was Hitler. You hear all of these complaints about all the laws we have--well, you know why we have all these laws? Because the children of that generation had no protection against that generation. You hear all about the environmentalists being too environmentally conscious--well, you know who did a great job of killing the planet? The people responsible for the dust bowl. The only thing that generation has been obsessed about preventing is another world war. And how have they gone about doing this? Starting wars to prevent bigger wars. You know, like how starting a fire prevents bigger fires.

Every generation is guilty of setting themselves above the current generation, though. It's a constant mixup, confusing nostalgia for quality.