What's the matter with kids today???

There's a man whose blog I happened upon when I started mine a while back. He thinks himself as a pretty smart fella, because he reads the words of OTHER smart fellas, and that makes HIM smart. His latest blog touts a study that proves beyond any doubt (resonable or otherwise) that the current generation is morally corrupt and beyond redemption.

Not surprising, this is nothing new--people have been yelling excited warnings about the decline of our youth since time imemorial. Me, I think it's a lot of bunk, as anyone who's around kids and young adults in the real world would be able to tell. Here are two liens of thinking on the subject.

Numero Uno:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
--Socrates, roundabout 400 B.C.

Nummer zwei:
"The kids are alright."
--The Who, 1969

Me, I tend to side with the latter, since the former philosophy has been whining about the uterly hopeless decline nof our youth long before Jesus was even a glint in God's eye. The guy that wrote this study, he doesnt see his granddaughter--a lovely gal with pink hair and earrings no where near her ears--spending Saturdays that she could be hanging at the mall, voluntering at a homeless shelter. He doesn't see the kid next door giving up his promising basketball future to study at Lyola to be a doctor. He didn't see, like I did, a Mexican kid in baggy pants helping a frazled single mother with three small kids and no free hands with her grocieries, when he didn't even work at that Safeway. The future of our planet is not screwed. We will all be okay. Anyone who cared enough aobut people to lift his nose out of a book for 2 secs and stop patting himself on the back for knowing more than everyone else would know that.