Re:What is ‘elite overproduction’?
by coldtea on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:25AM
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>When successive generations complain about "kids these days", there is a contradiction.
Not really. It's totally logically consistent if things are going downhill with each successive generation. (In fact, it would still be consistent if different things were going downhill, Gen 2 worse on X compared to Gen 1, and Gen 3 worse on Y compared to Gen 2, and so on). Whether that's the case it's another matter.
>It's possible that there is a constant decrease in standards, such that every generation is worse than the one before it.
Exactly.
>But I doubt it.
I wouldn't be so sure.
Note also that since there are no permanent eternal standards standing outside of history, each generation only has to be worse by the standards of its previous generation, for the accusation to be true...
Not really. It's totally logically consistent if things are going downhill with each successive generation. (In fact, it would still be consistent if different things were going downhill, Gen 2 worse on X compared to Gen 1, and Gen 3 worse on Y compared to Gen 2, and so on). Whether that's the case it's another matter.
>It's possible that there is a constant decrease in standards, such that every generation is worse than the one before it.
Exactly.
>But I doubt it.
I wouldn't be so sure.
Note also that since there are no permanent eternal standards standing outside of history, each generation only has to be worse by the standards of its previous generation, for the accusation to be true...