Thanks. Interesting start. I'll watch the rest, but this jumped right out at me: "I wondered if this was an old guy problem."

This is just more brainwashing, in this case aimed at Boomers, indeed, anybody over thirty (the cutoff for Boomer kids in which anybody older than that had nothing worth listening to).

Its real goal is to make those of us with extensive lived experience to doubt ourselvers, and the hard-won lessons all that experience has taught us. In my case, I'm a long-time professional SF writer (first published story in Analog back in 1980 (written in 1978), and so I have a written record to compare against today's shibboleths.

Turns out I was even more on the mark back then than I thought I was. My very first story, "Instructions Enclosed," told the tale of a computer being fed all of human knowledge and having it "wake up" to self-consciousness. I can't find any more spot on description of LLM-style AI anywhere in the literature at that time.

Progressives seek to erase history in order to substitute their own utopias. And that means also erasing your own trust in your own personal histories and the lessons learned therefrom.

The laughable "Boomer gotta boomer" crap currently being passed around among the youthful ignorati is nothing more than fear and envy. They know we know and can do stuff, stuff they don't know and cannot do. So their cope is to pretend that it is either doesn't exist or, if it does, it is worthless. Such reactions are so common across generational divides as to be utterly banal.