One of the worst things this modern society has done is convince the young that there is nothing worthwhile to gain from listening to the generations that came before them. They have been convinced to discard ideas simply because they are 'old' and from the past. Therefore, every subsequent generation has to learn that hard earned knowledge all over again at quite the cost.
-Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan (1980)
One of the worst things this modern society has done is convince the young that there is nothing worthwhile to gain from listening to the generations that came before them. They have been convinced to discard ideas simply because they are 'old' and from the past. Therefore, every subsequent generation has to learn that hard earned knowledge all over again at quite the cost.
Yep. Also a good Bob Dylan lyric from My Back Pages “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”.