Zardoz, if anyone remembers that movie, perfectly describes the dynamics of boomer politics. A cohort became powerful enough to control the world & live forever, and they proceeded to cut off future generations to indulge in their narcissism.
Only Sean Connery, the archetypal desensitized zoomer who responds to nothing but visceral experience, could defeat them and their illusory pleasures. And he needed help from the archetypal based boomer, Arthur Frayn, who saw what his generation had become and grew sick of it