Strauss and Howe in their book Generations talk of this. The nomad generation (Gen X) lead the 2 younger generations through every crisis in history. A crisis tends to repeat every 4 generations (roughly every 80 years). They give examples like the WW2 generals and Truman, Washington, Adam's, Jefferson etc in the revolutionary War; are all of the nomad generation. They lead and make the hard choices like dropping the bomb on Japan to save allied lives. Nomads are pragmatic as a result of their unsheltered childhoods. I see Gen Z in my son and his friends rejecting wokeism and aligning more with Gen X values. They are very different than the " last place gets a trophy" generation that preceded them. Sadly, many Gen z have also been indoctrinated as we just witnessed. My generation have for the most part been silent and allowed weaker people (mainly academics) to influence the last 2 generations. I think for a lot of Gen X, that silence ends now.