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A comment on W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring. Parent comment

Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by wolverine876 on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:13AM (#37205978)
> What's changed is we've as a culture realized that age doesn't automatically bestow wisdom.

That's no new realization, but a continuing pattern, generation after generation. The youth of the 1960s took that idea much further than today's kids.

'Every generation thinks they invented sex.'

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Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by Sakos on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:32AM (#37206429)
I'm not really talking about the current generation (especially since I'm not a part of it). I'm talking along longer timespans as a longer process. Hundreds to thousands of years. The old being wise goes back a long time, and we didn't just realize it's bullshit yesterday.
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Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by wolverine876 on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:07PM (#37217331)
Fair enough, but the mistake of (some of) the young is to call it bullshit - first they think it's scripture (which it is to younger children, and which they need to believe to feel safe) and then, when they discover that older people are flawed humans, they think it's all bullshit.

It's neither. Older people often do know many things that younger people don't yet, but older people are very human too.

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