[catfish1957]

My first thoughts were in agreement, then I realized every older generation says that about the younger generation. Think about it.

[Tax-chick]

You’re right. In fact, practically the earliest surviving writing (other than government accounting records) records someone railing about how useless the younger generation is.

It’s natural to think time should be frozen at our prime years, whatever they were. For example, the author goes on about tying shoes, but what’s so iconic about that skill, except that it was important in the author’s childhood? A few generations earlier, someone was surely editorializing that today’s children are useless because they can’t use a buttonhook. “Laces? LACES are for pathetic losers!”

[Vide]

O tempora o mores!

[Little Ray]

Someone once pointed out that the same complains were found etched in cuneiform on a clay tablet. I pointed out that the reason we had that tablet was that somebody had burned the building it was stored in, firing it to rock-like hardness.

Unfortunately, sooner or later, the old farts are right, and the lights start going out.