• citrusface@lemmy.world
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      Stop being an old person. Just because things are different doesnt mean it’s worse. It’s the same in a different way. I had pogs and power rangers. Kids now have memes and tiktok. Whatever.

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      pov every person that aged badly complaining about the younger generations since times immemorial.

      Every single generation had senile old farts saying that about them since, at least, ancient Greece - though it’s more likely that’s going on since humans have the concept of generation. More often than not, the old farts were wrong.

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        We know about ancient Greece because the youth ignored the moral panicking of their elders and used the technological abomination of writing things down.

        Presumably society was a paragon of moral virtue prior to that, not that we’d know since history was written by the people who invented writing.

        I blame it on cave paintings, it filled young people’s minds with fantasy images so real they could no longer tell the difference between reality and cave paintings. We never should’ve invented fire shadow plays, it was a slippery slope ever since.

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      pov maybe it’s not that the younger generation is always worse, and it’s just old people complaining as they usually do