As you grow up, you will, as I said, realize how much smarter all those people you dismiss actually were than you believed.
The world is a complex place. The "old people are dumb and we should throw out everything they built" mantra is a silly trivialization of reality, one that every generation believes fervently as children, and one that the intelligent ones reject when they find out what the world is really like.
That doesn't mean that the system as it exists is good. The system as it exists isn't perfect. Maybe listening to those coming at it with a fresh perspective gleaned from youth would benefit society a bit.
