Skeletons: The New Generation

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Skeletons are scary and spooky, but do you know what else is? Teenagers. Their attitude the way they dress and the music they listen to. Can you even call it music? Kids these days. But what are kids these days? What’s all the concern and what’s a generation? Why do we think that coevals a group of people of roughly the same age, act so much alike? The numbers of articles and papers and internet posts published daily comparing then and now, both sincerely and ironically, is astonishing. We can’t seem to get enough about kids these days and just how different and awesome it was to be a kid back in the good old days. Generational labels make human history look ordered and discreet, instead of scary and messy. They also have a delightfully suspicious tendency to flatter those using them. George Orwell put it well. “Every generation imagines itself to be more …show more content…

After all. ”honor thy father and thy mother” was an ancient commandant for a reason. In the 4th century BC, Aristotle remarked that youths mistakes are due to excess and vehemence, they think they know everything. In the early 1900’s Romain Rolland complained that the new generation of young people were, “passionately in love with pleasure and violent games, easily duped.” New people and the direction society is headed in has always been seen with some disapproval. Xkcd famously collected a brief history of great examples. In 1871, the Sunday Magazine published a line that may as well have been written today about texting. “Now we fire off a multitude of rapid and short notes, instead of sitting down to have a good talk over a real sheet of paper.” And the Journal of Education in 1907 lamented that at a modern family gathering, silent around the fire, each individual has his head buried in his favorite magazine. The point is there’s nothing new under the Sun. Not even the Sun, in fact. The Sun is believed to be a 3rd generation

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