One of the hard lessons we all learn is life is not fair. You and I are on the same page when it comes down to tenure. It is not right that people can be in a position that no matter how bad a job they do, they can not be fired. This is what happens when we reward mediocrity and punish achievers and hard work. Why? Because it is easier to indoctrinate and control mediocrity.
You may find that we are all on the same page and age has nothing to do with it. Within time hopefully, after we are all thru pointing our fingers at each other, we will realize we all have the same enemy.
I would argue that a minority of boomers have the common sense and understanding that you do. My frustration is with the ones who you’ve been battling with all your life.
It’s hard enough dealing with my peers who are space cadets when you’ve got the ones who are supposed to be responsible encouraging it!
I was very disenheartened when I went to university and saw all the fluff courses. That is part of why it took me so long to go back. I had teachers telling me how to do things when I had done them years previously and knew how things actually worked. I had some great teachers, but way, way, way too many of them were wedded to the whole ethic of secular humanism and determined to weed out everyone who thought otherwise. I was so glad to be finally done, where I could be assessed on merit rather then just regurgitating what the prof believed.
But I went, I actually finished, and managed to do it my way, not theirs.