Young people have less grasp on the history, recent or long standing, and are more likely to favour novelty.

The consensus of the great and wise is just that. Experience brings an overview. Experience comes with age. It also brings caution and fear of irrational change. But that is why experience is valued. How do Yoof acquire that? Patronising is not the germain word, perspicacious more like. But then if you have an agenda any word that fits will do.

Why is personal debt so prevalent? Because people have to HAVE - look at the rise and rise of technology and who is doing the most buying? Borrowing is the way to buy.

As Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens said (allegedly) "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years" (yea yea - his father died when he was twelve. That's Sammy for you)

and FWIW Cameron agreed to the referendum wording but only after a lot of hard bargaining, it was not his choice, merely his acceptance. Ditto voting age.
But if you have an agenda, the above can be re-worded to suit your ignorance.