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I say I don’t understand the young generation all the time but I recognize at this age I’m not supposed to, and I'm going to understand them less with every year. That’s literally how things always have been. There are surviving writings going back literally thousands of years saying stuff to the effect of, “These spoiled lazy kids today and their strange ways and not wanting to work hard!” I heard the same thing about my generation. The "spoiled lazy kids" today will be saying it about the "spoiled lazy kids" in a couple of decades too :).
in reply to Hank G ☑️

So true. Many years ago I read an article which quoted someone criticizing young people. It sounded like it was describing young people of today, but at the end of the article it then revealed that the quote was from 1900. I found that pretty mind-blowing back in my 20s.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

Yep. And the unending stream is blame for the current state of the world is, in part, or fault.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

Already the Greek philosophers complained about the youth... That's nothing new
in reply to Hank G ☑️

My experience of the latest generation of kids is:
1) A part of them have been pushed into the status games their parents are trying to win.
2) A part of them are incredibly lonely, because they are terrified of not getting things right, being judged, and being unable to win at the game of adulting.
3) Another part of them are so much tenderer and more accepting of one another than previous generations.
in reply to manuelcaeiro ☕

Yes but more importantly want to remind myself to avoid falling into the traps of previous generations looking down on the next generation.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

“Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased … The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say ‘raise the carriage shafts’ or ‘trim the lamp wick,’ but people today say ‘raise it’ or ‘trim it.’ When they should say, ‘Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!’ they say, ‘Torches! Let’s have some light!’”

Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenkō
1330 – 1332
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