I think your username adequately describes the state of your generation (guessing you are about 30, based on your thinking); the smoldering remnants of a great fire that once was.

The idea that, somehow, your actions do not define your value is so fundamentally broken that it isn’t found elsewhere in nature. There isn’t a single creature in nature that gets to be valuable in the eyes of the very objective and unrelenting judge that is evolution.

We are fortunate that the younger generation, filled with potential, is almost here to replace the vast void.