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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Yep. It always makes me think of this quote, which tells me people have been talking smack about the younger generation for a long, long time:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
--Socrates
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Aww man I don't want to think of Socrates as a crotchity old fu
ck. It more or less reminds me of a book I read a few years ago called
The Dumbest Generation: How The Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, I got about 50 pages in before I had to stop because it just read like a "listen here young whippersnappers, why back in my day we had to actually work for a living, we had to walk to school up hills both ways, blah blah blah." I lent it to a friend of mine who has a tendency to write comments in books, and within a week half the damn margins were full of counterpoints. It also reminds me of an article I read a few years ago from somewhere in New England where some old newspaper printings from the 18th century were discovered and there were some editorial sections complaining about the laziness of the coming generation, it was pretty much a paraphrase of that Socrates quote you found.