Its not a disconnect, in the sense of accidental misalignment.

Its literally rules for thee and not for me.

A teacher of a millennial who chastized them for citing the source wikipedia cites... would likely be the same person who is today enraptured by AI, if not directly, at least in their retirement portfolio.

... they are in fact actively full of shit, and most of them know it.

Boomers broadly do not personally follow the principles they demand others follow.

At least a mindless Alpha Ipad baby or TikTok brainrotted Gen Z wouldn't gaslight you into pretending what they are doing thoughtlessly or dubiously is actually just common sense and you are infact a completely invalid failure of a person if you disagree.