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The History of Adults Blaming the Younger Generation for how screwed up their present day is.

Did YOU know that for every generation throughout our history there's elderly people blaming the younger ones for the reason their society is fucked up?

Do you see how this might be a bit of an issue if taken to extremes with this logic? I sure can. Do you think we can ever stop this trend of blaming younger folks for things? Or maybe you think there's nothing wrong with this? in that case do each succeeding generations have a point about the youth of that time corrupting things?

Quotes from that video to consider:

2001 - "They have trouble making decisions. They would rather hike in the Himalayas than climb a corporate ladder." Proceeding with Caution, Time https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,970634,00.html

1993 - In fact, what really distinguishes this generation from those before it is that it's the first generation in American history to live so well and complain so bitterly about it. - The Boring Twenties, Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/09/12/the-boring-twenties/001a040b-d7f2-46ee-b489-44b68b8f82bb/

1951 - "Many [young people] were so pampered nowadays that they had forgotten that there was such a thing as walking, and they made automatically for the buses… unless they did something, the future for walking was very poor indeed.” - Falkirk Herald


1933 - For the Age has itself become vulgar, and most people have no idea to what extent they are themselves tainted... women painted like prostitutes... throwing off every kind of social restraint... that it is now the vulgar mob that gives the tone.” https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/88483.Oswald_Spengler


1926 - We defy anyone who goes about with his eyes open to deny that there is, as never before, an attitude on the part of young folk which is best described as grossly thoughtless, rude and utterly selfish.” Hull Daily Mail

1843 - "…a fearful multitude of untutored savages… [boys] with dogs at their heels and other evidence of dissolute habits…[girls who] drive coal-carts, ride astride upon horses, drink, swear, fight, smoke, whistle, and care for nobody…the morals of children are tenfold worse than formerly.” - Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Speech to the House of Commons


1790 - “The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth…” - Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family, Reverend Enos Hitchcock


1624 - “Youth were never more sawcie, yea never more savagely saucie … the ancient are scorned, the honorable are contemned, the magistrate is not dreaded.” - The Wise-Man’s Forecast against the Evill Time, Thomas Barnes


1330 - 1332 - In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased... The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. - Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenkō http://www.rumikohagiwara.com/kenko-essays-idleness-keene

Circa 20 bc -“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.” Book III of Odes, Horace https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceOdesBkIII.php


100 BC - “The beardless youth… does not foresee what is useful, squandering his money.” The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos, Horace https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9175?msg=welcome_stranger

4th Century BC - “[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.
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They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.” - Rhetoric, Aristotle

So what do you think? What thoughts come to your mind while reading all these? Please share.

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