It's disingenuous, or maybe just naive, to think that a generation who has been on the earth 20 years longer than you doesn't understand what's going on in your

It's disingenuous, or maybe just naive, to think that a generation who has been on the earth 20 years longer than you doesn't understand what's going on in your generation. That's funny, most of the people I know who talk a lot about this, and think today's youth are just fine, are over 40. The point is that there has always been rhetoric from elders about how terrible the youth are. Aristotle complained about the atrocious manners of the modern youth. Your grandparents' grandparents probably talked about the lack of community in the modern world. The game panics in the OP are just one category of a general theme. My wife is doing a paper on the "Girl Problem"... turns out you can go back 500 years and find a continuous written record, in both popular writing and policy, of the "current" crisis of morality among young women. With age comes wisdom, sure. But age also brings a sort of amnesia. The evidence is overwhelming.