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THis is so wrong...but I Have to say it...my fingers are forcing me to: IPU help me...
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Just because two people complain about the same problem at two different times doesn't mean the they're both wrong. One could be right in the assessment of their culture, one could just be cranky. Maybe Socrates was right about that generation, maybe the prior generation was much more upright, and was even more generous, chaste, and pure than the generation before that. You don't know. All three examples here are 2,000 or more years apart, that's plenty of time for upswings and downswings, and polls indicate most people agree that our country is in a downswing right now.People have been complaining about the decline of their current cultures for millennia, looking nostalgically back at older days (and ignoring the flaws of those older times in the process).
"A tablet from ancient Assyria, about 2800 B.C., has been found that states: 'Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common.' More than 2,000 years later, Socrates complained, 'Children are now tyrants...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 over their teachers.' And Plato wrote of his students: 'What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents, they ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?'"
-- Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, ed. Isaac Asimov. New York: Wings Books, 1979.
Just because two people complain about the same problem at two different times doesn't mean the they're both wrong. One could be right in the assessment of their culture, one could just be cranky. Maybe Socrates was right about that generation, maybe the prior generation was much more upright, and was even more generous, chaste, and pure than the generation before that. You don't know. All three examples here are 2,000 or more years apart, that's plenty of time for upswings and downswings, and polls indicate most people agree that our country is in a downswing right now.
polls indicate most people agree that our country is in a downswing right now.
On the other hand, why is traditional culture so pleasant and admirable ?
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