“I simply want to live my life slowly and lay down in a bed of moss with my lover and enjoy the rest of my existence reading books, creating art, and loving myself and the people in my life.”
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”
Most high school classes these days are filled with kids scrolling social media the whole day. Is that utopic?
Athenian society was in decline during Plato's lifetime, falling out of the 5th century golden age. His observations were likely lucid.
“The new generation is clearly what’s wrong with the country, somebody do something about them.”
My more thought out counter would be that every generation since the boomers had this said about them to my knowledge.
Even before the concept of ‘western civilization’ existed, you probably had older gens saying this about the youth of the British empire or whatever.
~ Aristotle
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