"Our youth have been ruined..." I don't get where this hyperbole comes from. Wasn't every generation "ruined" by this, that or the other thing? We need to main

"Our youth have been ruined..." I don't get where this hyperbole comes from. Wasn't every generation "ruined" by this, that or the other thing? We need to maintain some perspective. The youth are the more relevant ones here, not us.