[TheForge] YAK - Please talk Missouri UP or down

[Demon Buddha]

Thus spake Lynn Emrich:

> The children now love luxury; they have bad manners,
> contempt for authority; they show disrespect for
> elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children
> are now tyrants, not the servants of their households.
> They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
> contradict their parents, chatter before company,
> gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and
> tyrannize their teachers.
> 
> Does this sound familiar? Haven't you heard someone
> saying more or less the same thing about this
> generation? It's actually a quote from Socrates
> (469–399 B.C.). The more things change, the more they
> remain the same!

	I had a quote from Pertronius Arbiter, 310 BC IIRC, about the tendency 
of bosses to reorganize a gropup just as it was beginning to  learn to 
work well as a unit.  It applies beautifully today as well.

	Indeed, the more things change...

	-Andy