[Jamestown1630]

The story goes that Napoleon's men found inscriptions from ancient Egypt indicating that 'The younger generation is going to the dogs...don't respect their elders, have no work ethic, and don't follow tradition.'

That inscription has been dated to about 800 BC; and we can see, even throughout the Bible, that society has broken down many times over millennia, and then returned to very Conservative values.

Little in human life is ever unchanging; but human nature itself doesn't really change at all; only the way it presents changes, over and over. And most people, through their own little lifetimes and perspectives, think it's a disaster. That doesn't mean it's a disaster in the Ultimate Plan.

[reasonisfaith]

In 1966 when “intelligence” agencies sparked the hippie movement in Laurel Canyon and in other targeted locations, the strategy was to heap gasoline on age-old sins like rebellion and lust which had burned below the threshold of public acceptance for most of history.

It’s important here to understand how social mores have been manipulated.

The all-too-common—even cliched—cries of “but younger generations have always rebelled against older ones” don’t seem to grasp the idea that the threshold of public acceptance was actively breached in the twentieth century by deliberate and calculated operations of intelligence agencies. The result was an acceleration in the intensity and prevalence of bad behavior. As if these government activists hoped to bring back the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.