Ah, wasp. I'm only 39, but I'm sure you're right. The only thing I'd say is that surely every mature lot of folks have shaken their grizzled heads at the young and said they're the end ov civilisation as we know it. It hasn't quite happened yet.
On the other hand, I feel that there has been an acceleration in the past 50 years of a move away from wisdom, a full humanistic education, popular culture which unites instead of splintering, ideas about decency (I don't mean sexual really - more consideration for others which has had to be countered by a victim-group society, again splintered, which seems to require present-day people to apologise for justified or not-justified past wrongs and other things. Materialism and secularism have improved many people's lives, but have also spawned, ironically, violent extremism by folks trying to grasp the old religions as they disappear, and a selfishness and lack of respect and a frightening sense of entitlement, especially among the young. I just think it's all happened more quickly in the past couple of generations, and, coupled with multicultural policies which are, let's face it, frightening to many as they have disrupted generations of slow building on to what came before, it seems that we are going to hell in a handbasket. (Odd image that - bet the average under-20 has never heard it.) Instead of a great levelling up, it's hard not to see a great levelling down, summed up, to me, by the Calgary authorities playing Mozart over light rail transit sound systems to break up gangs of yobs who can't stand to hear it. Gone on too long. Sorry. But it's easy to see both sides, although the speed of change makes it hard to stand back and observe critically and dispassionately. I know I would hate to have been born now. But have all oldies said that? Happy Valentine's Day to all our readers!
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