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Watch the short video with quotes. What do they have in common? Transcript\nThe History of Adults Blaming the Younger Generation.
2001 - «They have trouble making decisions. They would rather hike in the Himalayas than climb a corporate ladder.»
(Article in Time Magazine)
1993 - «… it’s the first generation in American history to live so well and complain so bitterly about it.»
(Article in the Washington Post)
1951 - «Many [young people] were so pampered nowadays that they had forgotten that there was such a thing as walking…»
(Article in Falkirk Herald)
1933 - «women painted like prostitutes … throwing off every kind of social restraint … all of these go to prove that it is now the vulgar mob that gives the tone.»
(Hour of Decision, Oswald Spengler (translated by C.F. Atkinson)
1925 - «… an attitude on the part of young folk which is best described as grossly thoughtless, rude, and utterly selfish.»
(Article in the Hull Daily Mail)
1843 - «[girls who] drive coal-carts, ride astride upon horses, drink, swear, fight, smoke, whistle, and care for nobody … the morals of children are tenfold worse than formerly.»
(Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Speech to the House of Commons)
1790 - «The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth…»
(Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family, Reverend Enos Hitchcock)
1624 - «Youth were never more saweie, yea never more savagely sauce… the ancient are scorned, the honourable are contemned, the magistrate is not dreaded.»
(The Wise-Man’s Forecast against the Evill Time, Thomas Barnes)
1330 - 1332 - «Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased… The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened.» (Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenku)
\nCirca 20 BC - «Our sires’ age was worse that our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.»
(Book III of Odes, Horace)
1st Century BC - «The beardless youth… does not foresee what is useful, squandering his money.»
(Horace)
4th Century BC - «[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life… They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.»
(Rhetoric, Aristotle)
