@professionalbigot69 Guys have an inbuilt desire to embrace the suck. It’s easy to be the old guy telling them they didn’t miss anything good but that essential suffering you go through is vital to building you into what you are.
Those kids have spiritual pica. They want the uniforms and the trinkets, but it speaks to their desire to be proven and tested, to slog through the misery and reach the abyssal depths of the human heart in the few places they can be found today