This article is garbage. Each generation since the inception of civilization has at least some part to play in the who/what/when/where/why/how we, as a global civilization got to this current place. To argue how any one generation is not to blame, at least in part, is idiotic and an attempt at deflection away from their past and continuing mistakes.

As a member of Generation X, I've grown up watching how each generation before us has failed the former and latter generations and how each has their own role to play in this mess. We have failed each other, that much is clear. There are countless history books proving this, and yet absolutely NONE of them offer any type of solution to the problems that plague is. They all leave it up to the successive generations to solve. Which is, in and of themselves, the greatest failure of all. Talking about a problem with no clear solution to it is pointless because it's the analysis itself that brings true understanding. How can a future generation even attempt to solve the problems if they don't have a clear understanding of their past?

Laying blame to each other is just another way [they] work to keep us divided as a species. Looking back only helps if we learn from the mistakes that were made, and work to keep from making those same mistakes in the future by remembering and teaching the successive generations about those mistakes, as well as our work in understanding them and our work to correct them.

As long as we continue to point the finger and deflect, we continue to make those same mistakes. We fail the generations currently alive, as well as the future generations yet to come. We continue to lie to ourselves and to our future.

As we continue down this path with no real and clear understanding of how we got to this point, as well as a plan to admit our generational faults along with our attempts at solving the issues we have, we're just delaying the inevitable and are helping to bring about the destruction of our species. As a result, there is really no point in continuing as a species, and we should just destroy ourselves now and hope that whoever is left afterward can rebuild humanity in the ways that we have failed.

Some may call this nihilistic thinking, but we will continue to make matters worse for the species because nothing will truly and completely change for the better, and we will continue to compound the problems we face now and in the future if we don't acknowledge our own generational roles as well as continuing to fail in offering real solutions.