Much of this reflects the confusion in the world. Some demographers characterize those American’s born between 1928 and 1945, The Luckiest Generation. They were the smallest cohort, their birth numbers supressed by World War One, the Great Depression, and World War Two. As they grew to adulthood, jobs were plentiful, they reaped the benefits of national electrification, sanitation, access to good education. They also had, generally, a stable world order and a stunning, without competition, American industrial economy meeting the pent up demand of the war years. That world order is in shambles.