Same as it ever was…

https://americansongwriter.com/remember-the-filthy-fifteen-4...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

Modern neuroscience provides enough evidence to argue older generations “synced” early on to ideals of the past. They memorized some modern syntax and semantics but still align as individuals with puritanical social and tyrannical political practices of old. Not entirely their fault, it’s biology.

Not something the next generations have to tolerate however. Physics is clearly ageist.