Example: Old people often complain about young people not having “basic knowledge” and say that younger generations know and understand less of the world than they do.
Example: Old people often complain about young people not having “basic knowledge” and say that younger generations know and understand less of the world than they do.
I think there’s merit to it — there’s just some stuff you need to know to be a successful person in the world. If you’re a couple generations removed from me, or from a culture that’s significantly different from mine, your corpus of “basic knowledge” will be significantly different from mine, and that’s okay.