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0 pointsdmm5y ago0 comments

Socrates probably didn't say that and if he did so what? What argument are you actually making?

"Two thousand years ago someone complained about X and people also complain about X now. So X is no big deal!"?

Hippocrates complained about malaria. Does that mean contemporary concerns about malaria are invalid?

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Fair enough though not the point I was trying to make :)

The parent mentioned "kids these days" and also "It's funny to watch, a lot of these have seen before and will again.".

Whether Socrates actually said this (or some other famous or not so famous guy from over 2000 years ago), it does show that that assessment is probably very very correct. And very funny to read indeed. Even if you don't agree with all of the parts of the statement (I don't) you will most probably find some you'd agree with. YMMV if you don't have kids :)

foolmeonce5y ago

OTOH, Socrates lived through the rise of Athens to prominence (their great generation?) and the generation he complains about would have been the ones to stop it's decline (our boomers -millenials.)

(So his observations could be of a cultural cycle rather than what every generation experiences from each perspective.)

Nasrudith5y ago

Malaria is largely the same - we have better treatment options but it is still the same disease.

Society is very much not the same - for one pedastry is a severe crime instead of an accepted institution. Insensitivity to changing circumstances hints at a fixed belief. If your compass always points to the same place on the dial as north it is broken. Not to mention that nearly everybody loves luxury - that is partially why it is expensive above and beyond production price!

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