It is really a lament of every generation. Every one has been saddled with the bullshit of the prior without our consent. Being "not of age" means that the children are along for the ride until they get old enough to realize just how bad they have been screwed by their parents' generation.
One thing that is really apparent is this covid thing is having a large impact on the only generation to have lived through and remember this shit happening before. The ones who were there for the dust bowl, the bread lines, the atrocities in the name of safety, the totalitarian states/nations, the oppression. How much blame they should hold for the state of things is a good question.