simple. after world war 2, the baby boomers were born into a wealthy generation of blissful ignorance. after increasing the human population by a factor of 3, they took jobs and elected corrupt leaders such as nixon, carter, and reagan. their blissful ignorance turned them into snowflakes, and future generations (x, y, z) suffered the consequences, including a particular pandemic which older people blissfully ignored that forced others to take serious matters.