Frank I call that the old fart attitude. You see many people as they get old develop this I know every thing, the young generation are shit (because they think differently) and the as long as something doesn't involve me personally i don't care...
So of course all they can do is pissing match here.
I recently got into a big argument with 2 friends of mine who lives in Israel. I simply told them how much dead is enough and why, out of a population not even the size of New York is Israel always the center of fucking conflict. I told them Israel does not hold the monopoly of world suffering... They both contacted me 2-3 days later saying it made them thinking...