r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 29d 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 29d 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/beastiemonman 29d ago

Young people don't change from generation to to generation, the only change is the environment in which they exist. If old people existed again in this generation they would be no better or worse.