If only USA had paid attention to old ladies

A nation that worships youth while ignoring history is defeated when an enemy uses new tech as weapons of war, for which the nation has no defense, because its citizens, who invented the tech, were using it to play games. 

Somehow I think there's a connection.

If America respected its own history and elders, it could have remained a great nation.  America may not have fallen if it had paid more attention to its old people.

‘nuff said.