Socrates totally agrees.
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.
Stupid kids.
Cross their legs?!
Straight to jail
It’s to prevent the adults who just entered the room from seeing them ‘rise’
If you think about it, their world really did end. When was the last time you heard of an Assyrian?
Go to Turlock, CA.
“Every man wants to write a tablet.”
Also complaining about the beer that kids are drinking nowadays, back in his day beer was unfiltered, had MORE muddy sediment, now THAT was real beer, etcetera etcetera…Back in my day, we had to CHEW beer.
Every man wants to write a tablet.
I dunno. I think the quote carries more dissonance, and therefore more meaning, if the author was busily pressing their thoughts into clay while the younger crowd was using this new-fangled papyrus stuff. That said, I have no idea how to translate the tablet shown in the photo.
But Assyria didn’t exist in 2800 BC? Assur was founded in 2600 BC
Yeah and I’m sure they didn’t have tablets back then…
