This line from Evelyn Waugh, which he gave to the maundering Dr. Puttock, pretty much presaged what became an implicit but prevailing attitude guiding the next several decades:
“Some people even think that a disproportionate attention is given to the next generation.” (The End of the Battle, Little, Brown and Company, pg. 93)
aka Officers and Gentlemen (1955), if you read it in England
Many people are willing to engage in self-righteous crusades “for the children,” but when it comes to actual inconveniences, like not polluting, not burning fossil fuels, not voting for a deranged megalomaniac, millions of us are willing to do violence to future generations just to ensure our own comfort.
