We have ministries of youth, sports and culture to keep youth diverted. For older persons we have radio and television. If a country is wealthy, we have day care centers for older persons. In due time youth will be saddled with responsibilities and become middle aged. In due time the aged will pass on.
Youth are right to be disaffected as they lose.
The aged are right to be frustrated as they lose. And ties of community are frayed and often break, so society loses. The loss of social cohesion is serious. I believe that the gender revolution has unleashed so much market power that we can attribute a large part of the economic boom over the past few decades to the embrace of women in mainstream economic life. It may well be that the next major world economic boom will be fueled to an important extent by the embrace of youth and age into the economic mainstream.