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Teacher here. Kids want the quick dopamine hit from their phones and their school-supplied chromebooks. They do not want to take the time to try something that might be hard, and they do not want to stretch their brains at all
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.
I'm not pro child and I'm not a child myself, at least by age, but you make it sound like children should just fall in line and be mindless servants. Half the stuff you listed I think are improvements to my upbringing.
Respecting elders is bullshit after a point. Respect everyone, but elders don't deserve some specialty treatment. I have never stood when someone enters a room except for a bride at a wedding or to greet that person. There are very few people that deserve people to stand on arrival, and for everyone of them, it depends on the setting. Nobody always gets a standing arrival. Contradiction is healthy within reason. Asking question and countering statements isn't bad when it's honest.
All that said, there are definitely traits that I think are bad with today's youths, but they aren't worse than previous generations, just worse in different things. For example, I bet less kids today smoke cigarettes compared to 10 years ago.
Edit: I guess that's a "woosh" on me. I thought that it read a bit on the nose, but I wasn't familiar with the OG material. That's on me, but I agree with the intended sentiment.
It’s a quote that gets attributed to Socrates showing that the issue of one generation complaining about the following generation is a tradition as old as time itself
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love-luxury-they-have-bad-manners-contempt