With apologies to Bob W for posting this before he could get to it: > Then, as I was saying, our youth should be trained from the first in a > stricter system, for if amusements become lawless, and the youths themselves > become lawless, they can never grow up into well-conducted and virtuous > citizens [...] Thus educated, they will invent for themselves any lesser > rules which their predecessors have altogether neglected.
[from Book 4 of Plato's Republic] stan On Mar 23, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: > On 2010-03-23 22:46, ann sanfedele wrote: >> Doug Franklin wrote: >> >>> On 2010-03-23 16:04, John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>>> It just seems that there's this self-centered "culture" that's grown up >>>> with the generation that's had the internet their whole life,[...] >>> >>> >>> It predates the "Internet generation" by at least two generations. >> >> I'm remembering the 70's being referred to as the "me" decade > > Ummm hum. Yup. Though the media and the "phrase coiners" were a little slow > on the uptake. The trend started no later than the 60s. Some would argue it > started in the FDR era, before the second "Big One". The progenitors of > today's rampant narcissism. > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
