The last article I read from you - well-written by the way - had older white boomers as key characters and this one has a more generic older white gentleman involved. There's something about this focus, that bothers. Still working on it.

Since I am an older white gentleman as well, I might offer up some perspective. I'll keep it brief.

1. Stupidity knows no color, race, or age.

2. Assholes are everywhere - only a few ambitious ones gravitate to the foreground.

3. My great-grandparents thought my grandparents were slackers. My grandparents thought my parents weren't as ambitious as they were and had it too easy. My parents - thoroughly disabused by the whole damn ambition trip - backed off and let me make too many of my own decisions.

We all trip over our foibles and shortcomings. Every single generation has messed things up and attempted to make it right. Is this 10% worse than past 10%s? Around 1900 the top 1/10th of 1% owned everything in America. That's why so many universities, buildings, parks, streets and plazas are named Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Du Pont and so on. What does that say?

We're all involved in the same frog-in-hot-water experiment. We all need to wake the f**k up.