Respect for older people should be earned through struggle and contribution, not given automatically. The speaker contrasts generations that survived World War II with contemporary youth culture, arguing that age alone doesn't guarantee merit any more than inherited wealth does.
You haven't fought for anything. You have no instinct to protect it. It's like how a trust fund kid who was born a billionaire can get easily moose out of money by women mainly. When you've built it yourself or when you fought for something or established a great nation, you remember all the struggles and all the hardships. Even you can go back not so recent distant history. In the 1990s, everyone was just, you know, going to raves, taking ease, you know, going to Ibiza every summer. Respect your elders made so much sense when I was a young man. And these are people who lived through the second World War. These are people who lived through great struggle, great hardship. But things have been so good for people in the west for so long. So like, oh, respect your elders. And you see a, you know, a 60, 70 year old woman walking down the street. I'm not saying don't help her across the road and I'm not saying don't treat her with respect. What I'm saying is in the United States, she could have been just some hippie smoking weed and doing orgies and fields with flower power.
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