The problem with young people....

I found 4 interesting post on this.

The answer to this question is that young people are just that...young.

Here are some post from 4 different people living in different centuries in time.

• "The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence [respect] for their parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint; They talk as if they alone know everything and what passes for wisdom in us foolishness in them. As for the girls, they are foolish and immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress" (Peter the Hermit, eleventh century AD).
• "Our young men have grown slothful. There is not a single honourable occupation for which they will toil night and day. They sing and dance and grow effeminate and curl their hair and learn womanish tricks of speech; They are as languid as women and deck themselves out with unbecoming ornaments. Without strength, without energy, they add nothing during life to the gifts with which they were born - then they complain of their lot" (Seneca, first century AD).
• "The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in places of exercise. Children are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties [food] at the table, cross their legs and tyrannise their teachers" (Socrates, fourth century BC)
• "I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, eighth century BC).

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I guess not much has changed over all these years. Young people will just be young people and eventually they will gain experience through life. 

Every time I think of young and old, or think of the philosopher who talked about Human Nature. Immanuel Kant. Even in his time he was able to visualize what life would be life if we had no rules or restrictions. Of course I wanted to shake my head in disagreement as I believe there are people who I believe can live quite honestly without rule, but for the majority, I can see greed and lies running amuck to preserve one's own life.

I would be lying to myself if I say it wouldn't happen. That's human nature. And for some reason some people feel if they hide it in the dark everything will be fine. I guess that dark parts of human nature act out in us somehow. 

Since I'm speaking about this philosopher  I may  do some reading on other philosophers from this book.

In the philosophy class I took....I think last semester or the one before that one...yes, it was the one before, we only studied very few philosophers. The most common ones such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine etc. But since I took Philosophy and Ethics during the same semester, I felt like I had the had the best of both worlds! :D

Mainly because ethics dealt with moral code, which is the class I read the material by Immanuel Kant. And philosophy dealt with questioning for the sake of questioning. It dealt with possibilities. Whereas it seemed ethics put into view those double standards of life. 

I actually liked Ethics. And I also liked philosophy. I passed both, but got a higher grade in Ethics....even though I actually needed the philosophy class *shrugs* 

Anyways, that's all for now. It's just I thought of the saying I hear often from people of the younger generation "what's wrong with these young people?"or they'll make statements about the younger generation. I'm pretty sure some younger people see the issues as well. 

Mon