Generation Whine

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<p>[Generation</a> Whine: Self-pitying Twentysomethings And The Boomers Who Made Them | The New Republic](<a href=“Generation Whine: Self-pitying Twentysomethings and the Boomers Who Made Them | The New Republic”>Generation Whine: Self-pitying Twentysomethings and the Boomers Who Made Them | The New Republic)</p>

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<p>And a cheese-y article to go with that whine?</p>

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<p>Anyone else sick of these “indictment of a generation” articles? I first started seeing them back in the 60s, and I’m sure they were not a new phenomenon then.</p>

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<p>Dates back at least to Plato, as I recall.</p>

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<p>^^ Agreed; as to when they started: “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
–Socrates</p>

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<p>Is Socrates on facebook?</p>

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<p>“50% of quotes on the internet are made up”</p>

<p>-Abraham Lincoln</p>

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<p>The real whiners are the people who write these articles.</p>

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<p>If we are, just remember who raised us :D</p>

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<p>I feel like the same articles are recycled year after year.</p>

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<p>Uh oh. That article referred to the Liberal Arts Bubble. Here we go again. LA v. STEM. Round 412.</p>

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<p>^ I love when it comes from, you know, a writer… :rolleyes: lol</p>

<p>Oh whoops. I missed the next two pages of the article. The mobile version didn’t show pages two and three :(. My last post makes less sense now lol.</p>

<p>ETA: The comments are better than the article.</p>

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<p>I’ve seen the same quote attributed to Hitler via Yoko Ono. Sites dealing in fake quotes and urban myths usually conclude that neither Socrates nor Hitler actually said that.</p>