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Arguably all started in the mid-to-late 70s when leadership in the US essentially threw in the towel on trying to improve the nation and started dismantling the

Arguably all started in the mid-to-late 70s when leadership in the US essentially threw in the towel on trying to improve the nation and started dismantling the country for profit. Adam Curtis's Hypernormalization does a very good job of illustrating this overall trend as it was reflected in the zeitgeist.

Bjartr 6y 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. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room." -Socrates
- watwut 6y ago
  Things change and different generations behave differently. Nevertheless, the parent complains about leadership behavior, not about children behavior.
  - elmomle 6y ago
    I do, however, agree with the spirit of quote; it's just that it started to become really applicable a few generations ago (or, depending on how you think of it, such a mentality was always a major current of colonized America, but it really gained cultural ascendency in the 70s as we ran out of easy ways to extract wealth while plausibly "improving" things).
- magnio 6y ago
  FWIW, that quote isn't from Socrates https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
blackrock 6y ago
This must be it. Back in the 70s, Carter at least seemed to care about the American family’s wallet. Now, America votes for a clown ex-president like Trump, thinking he’ll actually do something for them. Instead, he just surrounds himself with a bunch of other crooks. And I highly doubt that Biden will do anything different to send America on a different trajectory.
refurb 6y ago
Or maybe being cynical and disaffected is just a part of being young? Seems pretty common!
- ntsplnkv2 6y ago
  It's not just the young that are cynical anymore, though.

Bjartr 6y 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. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room." -Socrates

watwut 6y ago
Things change and different generations behave differently. Nevertheless, the parent complains about leadership behavior, not about children behavior.
- elmomle 6y ago
  I do, however, agree with the spirit of quote; it's just that it started to become really applicable a few generations ago (or, depending on how you think of it, such a mentality was always a major current of colonized America, but it really gained cultural ascendency in the 70s as we ran out of easy ways to extract wealth while plausibly "improving" things).
magnio 6y ago
FWIW, that quote isn't from Socrates https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/

blackrock 6y ago

This must be it. Back in the 70s, Carter at least seemed to care about the American family’s wallet. Now, America votes for a clown ex-president like Trump, thinking he’ll actually do something for them. Instead, he just surrounds himself with a bunch of other crooks. And I highly doubt that Biden will do anything different to send America on a different trajectory.

refurb 6y ago

Or maybe being cynical and disaffected is just a part of being young? Seems pretty common!

ntsplnkv2 6y ago
It's not just the young that are cynical anymore, though.