Like the stopped clock, sometimes we are right

Timothy Taylor, 2 January 2020:

A century ago, John F. Carter wrote an essay about “These Wild Young People’ by One of Them,” in the Atlantic Monthly (September 1920,  pp. 301-304, an excerpt is here, although as far as I know the entire essay isn't freely available online). It offers a useful reminder that complaints from young adults about the terrible world they are inheriting, so much worse than any previous generation ever inherited, are nothing new.

Mortimer Chambers, in the Introduction to The Fall of Rome:

The fall was foreseen and recorded by contemporaries...