My experience might be limited to my geography/culture (Eastern Europe). While I agree that it's hard to have an assessment of new generations that isn't biase

My experience might be limited to my geography/culture (Eastern Europe). While I agree that it's hard to have an assessment of new generations that isn't biased by your beliefs, I also think that simply giving up because everything is relative is not useful. The questions becomes: how can we see the problems of a generation with which we don't share a history in way that's useful to them? The original Socrates quote I was referring to is used to give up on doing anything, while my understanding of it was that we need to use more nuance and empathy to help guide the youth. Simply giving up on passing the lessons we learned from experience is a waste.