Just something I've been thinking about now that I'm 40. A complete lack of leadership and mentoring from the boomers.
Parents were just focused on academic success and getting me off to college. Never learned to use tools, tend to plants and animals, do sports or hunt.
In my career, I was just given lots of responsibility and risk. No mentoring or leadership. No actual control to go along with the responsibility.
Was it like this for anyone else? Now that I'm middle aged and see the problem, I'm trying to be different for the younger generation.
Nobody "mentored" X. Perform or get kicked out. Thrown into the fire: survive or die. I doubt it was much different for boomers, probably tougher.
Special people, groomed for special jobs, did get mentoring, before #metoo and all the woke shit and before EVERYTHING became about cost cutting (in the past 16 years since the GFC), but only if you were the top 0.00001% and you were chosen for the top positions to be groomed.
Find a group of more capable peers, make yourself valuable and learn from those who have the scars (learn from their mistakes and from their learnings). Be the worst among the equals.
That's all there is to it.
And the self-empowered, self-directed and independent you learn how to be, the more you can actually help others and be service to others, in addition to yourself.
BTW, where's the conspiracy?