Our parents made the right choice, at that time, but the choices they made became wrong; that was the saddest part of it. It got worse, when their generation, too scared, had no balls, to change the choices they had made & it became a nightmare they lived till they departed.
I think it is known as the Stockholm syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
With the passing of LKY, hopefully some of the 60% will join the others to retire some useless deadwood