There is a generational war at least once in every generation, because the old guard and its old ideas have to be replaced. That’s how we move ahead, and that’s one difference between human beings and animals. In the animal kingdom there are very few changes over the years or centuries. They follow the immemorial habits of their species. Humans are different. Older people like me imagine that they know how the world should be run and how civilized people should behave. But we are, of course, completely wrong and out of date and must be pushed aside to make way for the next generation who have quite different (although equally mistaken) ideas about how the world should be run and how civilized people should behave. This process of exchanging one set of illusions for another is known, not without irony, as “progress.” My own generation didn’t stand a chance in our particular generational war. We were just beginning to get our young lives in focus after 1945 when the Baby Boomers came