[Gargamel]

Platapus has it right, this generation gap thing happens every generation. Multiple studies have shown this, and it's all based upon observer's bias. Basically, people will remember the negative things you see, rather than the good. You see younger people acting differently then you remember doing so, and opposed to how you think they should act, and you remember that. You see just as many younger people acting they way they are expected to act, and you don't remember them as well because they don't stand out to you. Younger people are faster to adopt new technologies and cultural shifts, so they appear different, mysterious almost.

No generation is any worse off than the previous, relatively speaking. There will always be those who bring down each generation, there will always be those who lift it up. In today's world though, it's much easier to see, and remember, the former, while taking the latter for granted.

I see it too, I have caught my self saying "Those damn kids". While it may be a recurring thing, it still occurs to every generation, and still affects us.