Old people, what were elders from YOUR time ranting about?
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"I think its always the same thing really... after all it is juvenoia that we're talking about. so I'm just going to take a wild guess and say that pretty much every comment under this post will have the following mentioned: 1: outrageous clothes/style/music 2: "dangerous" behaviour 3: laziness (subjectively when compared to the elder generation but treated as an objective statement by said elder generation) 4: ungratefulness/being rude (again, subjectively when compared to the elder generation but treated as an objective statement by said elder generation) 5: talking down/devaluing something that these days already is or will be a part of everyday culture (reading books/television/videogames/music genres etc) "
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Gas went up to twenty cents a gallon. Beatnicks.
"Using the word "cool" too often. Germany. "
Not an old people, but Socrates thought writing things down instead of memorizing them would destroy learning forever.
"My great grandmother was born in 1901. When I was a little kid, I said I was bored, & she told me "Only boring people are bored " "
I guess 63 qualifies. I remember my parents losing their minds over the excessively 'long' hair worn by the Beatles. And the hippies in general.
"The formative experiences for our elders were the depression, which saw people of means become beggared in a short time, and WWII, which affected virtually every American family. So...anything that was not the depression or WWII was OK to them. We were raked over the coals for asking a a dime for a Popsicle - we would get: "We didn't have Popsicles during the Depression...You kids are spoiled....you want everything handed to you." Both my parents were immigrants and they were accustomed to spartan lives as kids, and their idea of happiness was plenty to eat and heat in the house. And to day I see sneakers for $300 a pair, and I recall that this was my father's pay for a month when I was in grammar school. "
"I remember telling my mom that before she died the Beatles would become elevator music. About five years before she died we were in an elevator and she was tapping along to the tune. My mom said she liked that. When I told her it was the Beatles we both cracked up. She laughed and said, " You told me." "
"I grew up in Alabama. Sooooo.... Black people, "the gays", Republicans(this was before the south bailed on the Democrats). "
The early 1970s proven science of global cooling and the risk to the global food supply.
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