My first instinct was to google up the Socrates quote about "youth of today" and make fun of how some old men always complain about decline of civilisation. Ho

My first instinct was to google up the Socrates quote about "youth of today" and make fun of how some old men always complain about decline of civilisation. However, I stopped when I remembered the fate of Athens and Greece after Socrates. Although humanity as a whole certainly advanced forward in the last couple of thousand years, Greek civilisation did experience decline that Socrates predicted; old man yelling at cloud wasn't as wrong after all. I believe that humanity will advance forward in the next couple of thousand years. But it doesn't mean that it will won't decline in the next few hundred years.