Indeed. But in their defence:

1) They were deceived by a lie (and still are), as we all are to some extent. It was only a minority of boomers that made this mess. It is, after all a class system. Middle and lower classes (mostly the middle) are heavily indoctrinated to perform the will of the mega wealthy, virtually from birth.

2) We have the Internet they did not. This allows dissenting voices and access to information that simply wasn't available back in the days of TV/magazines (Hence the current totalitarian attempts to censor all wrong think on the net). We have the potential to be better informed.

3) If our lives were swapped with our parents - would we do anything differently than them? I think probably not. After Nazi Germany, researchers tried to find out why most went along with it. Checkout the famous Milgrim's shock experiments and Zimbado's prison experiment. Majority of people just do what they're told to do. Think what they're told to think.

4) One good thing about the 'death of God' is that it got rid of a lot of bad religion and religiousity (but admittedly, replaced with some equally bad, if not worse, religion. Like Consumerism, and now the great spectre on the horizon; Corporate Transhumanism. Blah!). Not saying all religion or theism is bad. You know what I mean.

Anyway, we have:

Internet (for a little while longer at least)

Bitcoin

Nostr

Freedom tech

Medical care and advancement (yes, I know, I bit of a mixed bag. And when I say we, I mean everyone everywhere, in the entire world, including outer space, except America) *

* (yes, I know many in the developing world, and the poor generally, don't. It was just a joke)