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The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
by fucking_tragedy 11y ago
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
- kefka 11y agoOk Socrates. Whatever you say. :-) Curmudgeonism for over 2500 years and counting.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoI fear that nobody will understand your reference; if only we had taken more humanities classes...
- zeveb 11y agoY'know, some people read that and think, 'gosh, old folks always complain about kids; kids must not really be getting any worse!' I wonder if kids really have been getting worse for millennia…
- ryanwaggoner 11y agoIronically, that's almost certainly not attributable to Socrates (or Plato), but instead from a thesis written in 1907: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children... Maybe if we had all had better humanities classes, we'd know that :)