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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha, there was a compilation of complaints about young folks these days being lazy and self-absorbed that started with an ancient  Greek or Roman author and went up through the 1950s.  Seems like there have always been some old people who don't like young adults.  :)[/quote]

I remember having a history professor in college who read some passages from antiquity about how everything is going to hell in a handcart and the upcoming generation was the worst ever.  It sort of mirrored all the doom and gloom stories that I heard growing up (my cohort was the dumbest/flabbiest ever, we were going to be taken over by the Soviet Union or be an economic vassal of Japan, etc)

What I thought was funny were all of the slacker stories written by boomer journalists in the 90s.  Here I was a gulf war veteran, working, making deans list while pursuing a STEM degree, and generally getting ahead like most of my peers, but according to the media we were all living in our parent's basements listening to grunge.       [/quote]

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