A narcissistic generation?

[Trilby]

Tis an Age-Old Pickle:

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... 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 are tyrants over their teachers."

Or this one?

"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have
no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all
restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes
for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are
forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress."

I am not certain, but I think Plato said these?


I see it as part of the business of dealing with youth. But I also feel that this generation of teens and early 20-somethings are more slothful, less caring, than even MY generation. I suppose that marks me right away with the Old Fogey set, shaking my cane and saying, "In my day we didn't wear our pants to our butt cheeks and we WORKED and we were DAMN happy to have WORK, too!!" The student-workers at my Uni are univerally reviled due to their complete dissimilairities to awake, animated, alert human beings who'd like to cash a pay check now and again. They pratically dare each other to do any actual work.

I think the kids are narcissistic doody-heads for the most part. I also think the kids will be allright.