Every generation is a generation that will never come back. The only constant is change. Yours was different than the one before yours, and that generation said they same thing about your generation.
“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. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
I have read this for over 60 years, each time being presented as a defense against current behavior with the claim that nothing ever changes so why worry. My reply always has been that when this was penned, Greece was one of the leading civilizations in the world. Where are they now?
