On Youth
"Our youth now loves luxuries. They have bad manners, contempt for authority. They show disrespect for elders and they love to chatter instead 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 their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
So who do you suppose wrote this?
Socrates, 425 BC
What a curmudgeon! I'll bet he tossed persimmons at the kids from his porch.
"Our youth now loves luxuries. They have bad manners, contempt for authority. They show disrespect for elders and they love to chatter instead 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 their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
So who do you suppose wrote this?
Socrates, 425 BC
What a curmudgeon! I'll bet he tossed persimmons at the kids from his porch.
posted by Lou Schwing at 7:39 PM
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Heh! This reminded me a bit of the highly popular, if spurious, quotation attributed to Adolf Hitler back in the late 1960s - early 1970s, and spread via numerous anti-war posters:
"The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the Republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and from without. We need law and order. Yes, without law and order our nation cannot survive. Elect us and we shall restore law and order."
Ah, yes; remember those halcyon days of our youth?
Also, never underestimate the entertainment value of tossing persimmons at the neighborhood delinquents - especially after you've confiscated their ball ... !
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