Am I the only one who's noticed that for years, the older generation is convinced that the younger one is going down the toilet? Heck, this has been happening even before there were toilets. Just check out this quote from Socrates:
"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in the place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."
Ugh. I wonder what the great philosopher would say if he could see teenagers today. It seems that perhaps not much has changed, but I guess that all depends on the individual.
So are we really getting worse as time goes on? Based on what Socrates said, it doesn't look like much has changed. On the other hand, take a look at the '80s. Not the nineteen-eighties, the eighteen-eighties. Showing your ankle was considered provocative and improper. Now look at us - girls go to concerts in the summer in bikini tops and daisy-dukes. Then again, that means no ridiculous corsets.
I don't know about you, but I think the quality of music on the radio has declined since way-back-when.
Um... Okay.
An author (I can't remember who) pointed out that when given the choice between time traveling forward or back, they would rather travel into the past, because based on all the books in the library the past is filled with dashing and polite young men, whereas the future is run by an evil distopian government.
Where there is some merit to this, I would like to add that the past was infected with the Bubonic Plague.
Before I sign off, let me leave you with a few words of wisdom by Timbuk3, conveniently set to music!
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