[NFHale]

“...When did older people become the object of scorn ...”

Right around the time of “Never Trust Anyone Over 30...” When our Marxist cultural revolution was already underway in the 60s and 70s.

Here’s a good read on it: “The Revolution Was”
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig5/garrett1.html

[trisham]

"The Great Depression as it developed here was such an opportunity as might have been made to order. The economic distress was relative, which is to say that at the worst of it living in this country was better than living almost anywhere else in the world. The pain, nevertheless, was very acute; and much worse than any actual hurt was a nameless fear, a kind of active despair, that assumed the proportions of a national psychosis."

The Revolution Was
by Garet Garrett

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The above strikes me as similar to what we are currently facing in this country.