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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by greglindahl on Saturday December 09, 2017 @07:37PM (#15889028)
Cycles appear in hindsight, sure. Where's the cycle in foresight if everyone always thinks the young appear selfish and without morals?
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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by quantumofmalice on Saturday December 09, 2017 @08:58PM (#15889375)
There is no historical evidence that everyone always thinks the young appear selfish and without morals. Very often the youth have lead moral revivals (or panics, according to tastes.)

I don't mean to be unpleasant, but the idea that there has always been an oppositional libertine youth culture of selfishness is a modern canard.

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