Quote:
Originally Posted by BigPoppa
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!
-Juvenal
Cultural pessimists - getting it wrong since the first century AD.
In a similar sentiment, but on a different topic:
Quote:
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 disrespectful and impatient of restraint.
Hesiod ca. 700 BC
I found two qoutes with more or less the same content, that are even older than that, but they are both in German.