There is a possibly apocryphal statement from Plato where he complains about the youth of his day. This is often used as evidence that the elders will always complain about the children, and that nothing ever changes.
The thing is, a bunch of stuff did change. Within Plato's lifetime, Athenian democracy ended. Ultimately the most important Greeks are the ones who were taken as slaves by the romans, and eventually Greece was entirely subsumed into the Roman empire.
We have to be very careful about our post-modernist desire to pretend that actions and trends don't have consequences that can be negative and can be outcomes we don't want. How you behave matters a lot, at the sociologically atomic level, and eventually if you have people follow you at the civilizational level.
The thing is, a bunch of stuff did change. Within Plato's lifetime, Athenian democracy ended. Ultimately the most important Greeks are the ones who were taken as slaves by the romans, and eventually Greece was entirely subsumed into the Roman empire.
We have to be very careful about our post-modernist desire to pretend that actions and trends don't have consequences that can be negative and can be outcomes we don't want. How you behave matters a lot, at the sociologically atomic level, and eventually if you have people follow you at the civilizational level.
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