This attitude (let's not call it a quote) seems to often be offered up as evidence that there isn't much merit to such inter-generational kvetching. But if this

This attitude (let's not call it a quote) seems to often be offered up as evidence that there isn't much merit to such inter-generational kvetching. But if this attitude was contemporaneous with Socrates and Plato, then the Hellenic world was indeed in decline (Rome would conquer Greece in only a few hundred years and in Spengler's regime the whole Apollonian world had already entered its autumn period) and why should the recurrence not be because our own world has reached a homologous point in its development?