I am on my way out thank goodness, would not like to be a youngster today as it is a horrible vicious world to be growing up into!
While this is off-topic for this thread...I had to comment.
What is mentioned here is an unending generational cycle ...where older generations think the world is going down the tubes...and they may feel badly for the younger generations growing up in such a world.
In this case Keith is 85 years old...making his birth year 1934...and lives in the UK. Now for discussion's sake...let's call a "youngster" someone who's 10 years old.
When Keith was 10 years old it was 1944...1944 was approximately the 5th year of World War 2...Hitler had Western Europe, Eastern Europe, a large portion of Russia, and Northern Africa all torn up from a needless war (not to mention a lot more things)....and London & the UK had seen more than it's fair share of war-based troubles.
I'm sure there was at least one 85 year old man from the UK in 1944 saying much the same thing as Keith just mentioned..."
I am on my way out thank goodness, would not like to be a youngster today as it is a horrible vicious world to be growing up into!"
For 100's of years before this...85 year old men have been saying this. And for 100's of years into the future...85 year old men will continue to say this. It's an endless cycle that's probably been going on for 100's or 1000's of years...it will continue...and guess what...we're all still here...and for the most part...doing just fine.
The average person on the planet has never had it so good (fewer working hours, access to good food, a roof over their head, access to education, access to medical care, etc.).
- Nick
p.s. Of course it's not just 85 year old men saying this
.....it's also:
- 75 year old men & women
- 65 year old men & women
- 55 year old men & women
- 45 year old men & women
- Maybe some 35 year old men & women
- 25 year old men & women having too much fun!