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LillyLyle/Count MelancholiaI feel like I could have posted this image every day since the early 2000s.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@LillyHerself And indeed it has been used for at least two thousand years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_tempora,_o_mores!
@TimWardCam Haha, well that gives some perspective on it.
Then there's Cicero: "“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
Wilfried Klaebe@LillyHerself https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-the-oldest-authentic-example-of-people-complaining-about-modern-times-an has even older complaints in the comments. 😄
What is the oldest authentic example of people complaining about modern times and the young?
There are quotes, attributed to a king of Mesopotamia, and to Socrates and Hesiod, about how lazy the youth are, and how things were better when they were kids. Unfortunately, the veracity of the q...
SpaceLifeFormMay you live in interesting times.
@SpaceLifeForm That is apparently an old Chinese curse. Very apt.
TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️"Despite being so common in English as to be known as the "Chinese curse", the saying is apocryphal, and no actual Chinese source has ever been produced."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times
The Cat Herder@LillyHerself I could post that every day for my entire life, but with each decade it gets a larger section of the wall.
FilipA world without a revolution of consciences is a world of involution of consciences. One cannot live relying on the struggles of the deceased.
David W. Jones@LillyHerself
Hmm, maybe worse times, like during the bubonic plague in the 14th century?
Hmm, maybe worse times, like during the bubonic plague in the 14th century?
@dancingtreefrog Without vaccines, we could easily have repeated that, when COVID showed up!
@LillyHerself I don't know. COVID didn't have the assistance of rat fleas like the plague did. I think COVID without vaccines would have been more like the influenza of 1919?
@dancingtreefrog Fleas are bad in areas where there is poor hygiene. But no one is safe from an airborne pathogen.
@LillyHerself True, but Europe in the time of the plague was the master class on poor hygiene, and fleas were everywhere.
@dancingtreefrog That's why there were pockets where fewer people got it. The Dutch, for example, have always been notoriously cleanly, and they fared better than most other European countries.
Reid 
@LillyHerself nah, it's really around 2015 whem shit started getting stupid, but none would come to realise it till about 2020
Wollsocke
@LillyHerself And twice every day since at least 2016.
dobnox@LillyHerself Very relatable...
Flux@LillyHerself I hate living through historically significant events.