5. An Ageless Complaint
One can go back further, to the first century BC, when Horace complained that: “The beardless youth… does not foresee what is useful, squandering his money“. Or go back even further, to Aristotle in the fourth century BC, who wrote: “[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it“. Few snits against the young, however, led to widespread rioting like that which occurred in America during World War II. Known as the Zoot Suit Riots, they combined negative fashion feedback with a huge dollop of racism, and led to hundreds of assaults and acts of violence across the country in cities as far apart as Los Angeles and New York.
