«The detailed study of each other that youth and old age engage in is one of the surprising and remarkably persistent features of human society, going back millennia. Let us start - respect where respect is due - with the oldies. There's a thread of testimony - starting from ancient languages' cuneiform script, going through sources, such as Hesiod, Socrates and Aristotle, written on ancient Greek papyrus, through to the messages on television today. «Youths are spoiled to the core. They're wicked, godless and lazy.» This message, incidentally, is Babylonian. It is 5,000 years old.
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