True systematic, we are particularly soft these day. But this has been said by each preceeding generation about the next from time immemorial. The Greeks said that of their children, as did the Romans, as did the WW1 vets about the WW2 conscripts (whom we accept as "The Greatest Generation"). Humans are highly adaptable, some more than others and some not at all. How painful the transistion will be is dependant on how prepared the individual is to let go of the past and live in the new environment. We also confine our thinking to the past, and have trouble imagining a new, better tomorrow. I remember an Alistair Cooke essay all about this that ended with a quote by FDR to his wife at the end of the 30's, marvelling at a fantastic 4 day long ocean liner voyage from New York to London in which he closed....
