Brilliant article, and very insightful. Intergenerational moral panic and hand-wringing has been with us for about as long as we've been human. Ancient Greeks and Romans and even Chinese are on record stating how the youth are corrupted or inferior to their predecessors. Some things never change!
And yet... and yet... this time really is different. Some generations are upstream and some move downstream. Looking around at the cultural, economic, political landscape in the modernised West (and we ALL live in the modernised West now, even if you live in a yurt in Mongolia), it is difficult to deny that this generation is much impoverished – morally, intellectually, financially, physically, spiritually.
Generations of selfish people sold these kids down the river. They kicked the can down the road expecting some future generation to pick up the tab. Well now the reaper has come to collect and he is not in a bargaining mood.
VERY well said, my friend!
Brilliant article, and very insightful. Intergenerational moral panic and hand-wringing has been with us for about as long as we've been human. Ancient Greeks and Romans and even Chinese are on record stating how the youth are corrupted or inferior to their predecessors. Some things never change!
And yet... and yet... this time really is different. Some generations are upstream and some move downstream. Looking around at the cultural, economic, political landscape in the modernised West (and we ALL live in the modernised West now, even if you live in a yurt in Mongolia), it is difficult to deny that this generation is much impoverished – morally, intellectually, financially, physically, spiritually.
Generations of selfish people sold these kids down the river. They kicked the can down the road expecting some future generation to pick up the tab. Well now the reaper has come to collect and he is not in a bargaining mood.
Amen, amen, and amen. Thank you for breaking things down so convincingly and compassionately.