Nobody wants to work anymore!
(when the fuck did people actually want to work?)
Some time ago people merged contributing to society and being productive with work.
Work is doing something for money, but there are things I would do for free if I didn’t need to earn money to survive.
Teaching, community gardens, organizing social events. These are all things I’d love to do but I have to work like 50 hours a week to survive and safe for the future.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Said by - Socrates
I especially enjoy the 1979 citation there
“Nobody wants to work anymore.” - disgusted businessman
America’s political system being fundamentally broken. People point to George Washington’s farewell address like he was some 5d chess genius seeing into the future when really he was a dying old man who had just spent eight painful years watching the country shift into bipartisan gridlock
Plus decorum in Congress. Elected officials were literally beating each other with canes.
That everything is going to shit.
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Everything has always been shit.
Yeah but now is going to shit FASTER.
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Slightly different tack … by the time most people recognise a problem, and feel like it’s happening “now”, the reality is that it started long ago, has been ramping up gradually for a while, but most people didn’t want to bother thinking about or doing anything about.
Climate change being kinda obvious. The thing with Google and Chrome lately has been like 10 years in the making at least.
Generally, IME, when something goes wrong even in someone’s personal life … there was something wrong the whole time being ignored. Just recently I spoke to someone about a recently divorced couple who were buying houses and planning long term things months before the divorce. I pointed out that it had to be that way as they were desperately hanging on to the idea that the marriage can work when in reality it had died years before.
I had someone talking to me refer to 2020 as when the Black Lives Matter movement started and I just got so mad. I was just feeling like… Movements don’t start when you find out about them and join up. And also where you been? How much had this person been living with their head in the sand? It baffled me
Yea … it’s a thing … “history and reality are my history and reality” in some sort of narcissistic presumption of being plugged into anything that matters, when in reality, just about everyone knows very little of the totality of what’s bubbling along in human affairs.
Kids misbehaving in school. “Kids are so rude these days.” “Young people don’t show respect anymore.”
I’m pretty sure that every generation had its bad eggs in the classroom and nothing has changed.
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Also, we have a constant stream of news telling us all the bad things. It’s hard to detach from it.
Also, a few generations ago it was acceptable for a teacher to physically discipline the children with a wooden paddle
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates, ancient Greece
Idk when else in history one can say “kids watching videos on endless scroll on their mobile phone while they listen to music and their parents will yell if you take away their $1,000 pacifier”
I immediately think of butter, fat, dairy, and eggs. We were all told around the 1980’s to avoid them as they will make you obese, raise blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Until pretty recently the American FA was still saying are all bad, then it went to “in moderation” etc. In fact it was all enjoyed and quite healthy up to the late 1970’s and now again it is basically back in most people’s diets.
Actually, we’re discovering, other foods are often the cause of those symptoms, but don’t let me knock the advertising industry for fast and processed foods ;-)
“Fake News”
There’s been good and bad journalism for as long as there’s been journalists
Yup. Only the different names for it are relatively new. The term “Fake News” didn’t become popular until The Mango Mussolini was President.
Nowadays, everybody is trying to talk, like they have something to say. But nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish, like they forgot about Dre.
So what do you say to somebody you hate?
The existence of non-binary people.
Police reform has like a century of the same rhetoric without actually fixing the problem. You can read about it in old archives, and sounds hauntingly familiar to what you’d read from a modern reformist who opposes abolition
