We know that the age of first marriage is higher than ever before. Wages are down more than 20 percent from the early 1970s.
Young people see old people as the enemy.
The media have been duped by a clever campaign whose intention is to get rid of those nasty Social Security programs. The first of these was Americans for Generational Equity, or AGE, an organization that demonstrates that with proper funding, it's possible to launch an unsubstantiated idea and see it turn into the standard media view. Also on AGE's support list are many major banks and insurance companies. The idea was born and successfully marketed. Although the organization, unable to create any meaningful movement beyond public relations, folded in 1990, AGE demonstrated to corporate interests how easily the media could be manipulated with the story of impending generational warfare.