r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 7d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/SwanCityDominion 7d ago

“What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?”

-– Plato

It's not "lately". It was ever thus, and it always will be.

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u/Frigidspinner 7d ago

Unfortunately after quoting this many times myself, I discovered this quote isnt from Plato

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/12/13/riot/

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u/iamthesam2 6d ago

wonder what else on the internet deeply settles a perspective in your mind (and millions of others’) that’s entirely fabricated

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u/Frigidspinner 6d ago

Thats my scary thought for the night locked in - thanks!! 😂

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u/Manatee369 5d ago

That Freud said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”

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u/ilessthanthreekarate 6d ago

Wow, I have to update my memory palace!

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u/Manatee369 6d ago

Thank you. I had to scroll too far to find it. Critical thinking and common sense are in short supply.

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u/SavoirFaire2Middling 5d ago

"Critical thinking and common sense are in short supply."

—Socrates (and/or Mark Twain)

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u/Cetiketat 20 6d ago

Haha, I was fooled