Nobody wants to work anymore!
(when the fuck did people actually want to work?)
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
The older generation has basically always resented the younger generation for:
- Their lives being easier,
- Their music and clothing being awful,
- Doing sex wrong.
It’s like a constant of recorded history. The Romans said these things in ~300BC.
Also about the younger generation being too soft, which I believe ties with your first pint.
As a millennial I don’t resent zoomers, I actually feel ashamed for not having done better by them
As for music and clothes… I mean… we had Gabbers…
As a fellow (albeit very late) millennial, what is a gabber?
I also never heard of Gabbers, my fellow millenianite. From a quick Google search it appears to be a style of EDM music.
Some people made it a lifestyle, with specific looks and clothing as well.
I hope the Gabbers are still out there? … That is, if they used that amphetamine sparingly.
O tempora o mores
Trans people have existed for as long as people have existed.
Intersex yes. I thought trans was a relatively new (20th century, maybe 1930s) thing. What is the earliest recorded transition?
Chevalier d’Éon spent the last years of her life recognised by the king as a woman from 1777.
The term transgender is 20th century, but transgender people have always existed
In South Asia (where I come from), Hijras have been around for a thousand years now apparently.
I specifically mean trans people, not intersex people, though they have existed too. There are plenty of ancient cultures with evidence of what we would call trans people today, with some even being revered. Sorry to not give sources, but I’m just not invested enough to go research specifics at the moment.
I’m genuinely curious. Would you consider someone like Mulan trans? I’m from India and we have mythological stories of intersex and gods magically transforming to the opposite gender. None technically trans
No, Mulan’s “male” side was only ever a disguise, not her actually being a man. She was manly/masculine perhaps, as she did end up being described well by the song “Be a Man”, but ultimately her gender was never truly in question by herself or the audience.
As for history, this Wikipedia page is an excellent summary.
Thank you
the earliest i’m aware of off the top of my head goes back to around 300BCE, but i haven’t exactly done any research to find the earliest example, and i’d expect there are earlier ones. just suffice to say we’ve been around a long time.
Also two-spirit people in Indigenous cultures
You’re thinking of being g post-op. Not all trans people have surgery, and it’s not a requirement for being trans.
To add to everyone else’s replies, there’s also the muxe gender in Zapotec culture (indigenous southern mexico), which is thought to have been around since before Spanish colonization
Cancel culture. It’s been around for a very long time, though it used to be expressed in shunning, banishment, or communal acts of corporeal harm (e.g. tarring and feathering, lynching, etc.)
Edit: just realized the question was for something true, not just something that’s been around for longer than people think lol
It’s kind of funny when someone is commenting on two threads at the same time, and the subject is coincidentally tied.
I was discussing about Socrates’ trial. “Socrates was cancelled” describes it perfectly. Cancel culture in Athens 399 BCE.
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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Nice
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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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
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 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 ;-)
Gotta love how sugar is never on the list of things to avoid.
sugar industry pays big money to blame everything else while they dump sugar in EVERYTHING
even bread is sweet
A lot of people I know think that sugar is required to make bread (to activate yeast). Sugar is not at all required.
Anything with a “Foundation” or a “Board of” behind it, seems to get lobbying rights to veto any changes, i.e. to preserve their status quo ;-)
Supposedly too, you used to be able to commission a “research project” and define it’s scope nice and narrow, and get just the results you’d like to have published to support the “no change”. It does take a lot of money to be able to do this, though.
Fat was attacked by big sugar.
Dairy and Eggs are very bad for you and it’s only recent that it’s been taken off of Canada’s Food Guide.
Eggs are pretty nutritious actually (as long as not too many, like many other things) and yes they contain some cholesterol, but a body with zero cholesterol is a dead body. The brain needs cholesterol to survive. It’s all about moderation, as the dieticians love to say.
“Star Trek got woke”
This is as hilarious as people who say the same thing about Rage Against The Machine.
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?
Politics is too divisive, politicians are untrustworthy, political campaigns are too negative
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
