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From: Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi>
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Subject: Re: I don't understand pre-orders. Do you preorder?
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:54:44 +0200
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JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:

> One I found amusing was a opinion piece in a paper making all the
> normal claims of how the younger generation was lazy, unintelligent,
> would be the downfall of society etc. The catch ... it was a hundred
> years old.

Yes. In fact, as I recall, it goes back to at least Socrates complaining
about the same thing and he lived 470 – 399 BC.

> Do we really want swathes of people thinking that the likes of Andrew
> Tate make some good points and he's a intellectual?

I don't but for large swathes of people we're already there. And not
just young people.

It's a fun fantasy I have sometimes, what if there were a magical school
system that makes everyone intelligent, analytical and mean? Meaning all
bullshit artists and snake oil salesmen would just be ignored or
ridiculed and would have to do real work or starve.