For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.
For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.
“Kids these days.”
Shut up, kids have always been shitty, adults have always been shitty, there was never a point in time where anyone ever wanted to talk to a stranger. We all suck all the time and always have, your generation wasn’t any different just because you used different slang and wore different clothes.
I recall some Roman writer complaining about the worthlessness of the youth and how Rome was doomed.
Just before a boom of conquest.
Moralising elders waxing nostaltic have probably been around longer than preserved writing.
Edit: it was Horace:
Text and translation obtained via Wikisource: Horace, Odes 3.6, published 24 or 23 BCE, during the earlier years of the reign of Octavian Augustus.
We could argue about the quality of a youth that bowed to what would be a monarch in all but name, but it’s hard to deny their courage and effectiveness in battle, which would have been an important virtue in Rome at the time. That “wicked offspring” stabilised an Empire wracked by decades of civil war and unrest, expanded it and by Horace’s standards should have been quite honourable.
(Note: this is not an endorsement, just commentary on the mentalities of the time)