This has got to be the most inane list I have ever read. The fact that the Royal New Zealand Navy does not serve its sailors rum? Who cares? Whether they ever did or not, did any generation ever know or care?
I notice there was nothing in here about sexuality, which is probably one of the most sad changes; they never grew up in a time when homosexuality was considered wrong by society in general (not just the religious) and how about this is a generation that often has NO intact marriages going back three generations. I’ve met kids these days whose parents are divorced, their grandparents are divorced and their GREAT grandparents are divorced.
I agree a better job can be done...
First the Lash, then Rum. Can Buggery be far behind?