I distinctly remember some years ago the very same feral hog boomers very upset that young people didn’t care about things outside of their iphone and avocado toast. Now they care about the wrong things and some hot couch guy with a nightstick is coming to cave their head in.
That kind of rhetoric has always been apologia for the system, not meant to be practical advice. “The problem isn’t the political economy, it’s that you’re not doing X” with X being a moving target depending on what’s convenient at the moment.
Moving target you say?