Youth is not the root of all which is bad.

Still, Rav Hirsch does take care to point out that “The same rule applies in the development of the generations. The younger generation must stand reverently at the grave of the generation that preceded it. It must take a garment and cover the nakedness, the weakness, of its forebears, and at the same time receive from them their spiritual legacy, so as to build its own future. Only then will the generations develop like a flourishing tree. But if the new generation gloats, like Cham, over the “nakedness” of its ancestors; if it sees only their human frailties and derides their spiritual tradition; if the sons scornfully sever the bond with the generation of the fathers – then their own future, too, is only a dream: Just as they sneered at the memory of their forefathers, so will their own descendants sneer at them.”