Socrates totally agrees.
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.
Stupid kids.
If you think about it, their world really did end. When was the last time you heard of an Assyrian?
It's been shortened to ass. There's still a lot of them around...
Go to Turlock, CA.
"Every man wants to write a tablet."
Also complaining about the beer that kids are drinking nowadays, back in his day beer was unfiltered, had MORE muddy sediment, now THAT was real beer, etcetera etcetera...Back in my day, we had to CHEW beer.
Every man wants to write a tablet.
I dunno. I think the quote carries more dissonance, and therefore more meaning, if the author was busily pressing their thoughts into clay while the younger crowd was using this new-fangled papyrus stuff. That said, I have no idea how to translate the tablet shown in the photo.
But Assyria didn't exist in 2800 BC? Assur was founded in 2600 BC
Yeah and I'm sure they didn't have tablets back then...
Wondering what the actual text really translates to. I have a hard time believing that in 2800 BCE, "Every man wants to write a book," was really much of a concern, but you never know
I can't speak to the validity of this particular example, but every society has something that they're decrying as a sign of weakness, and it changes over time.
We're all familiar with the denouncement of rock and roll, but at one point reading was seen as a bad thing. People were concerned that it encouraged laziness and distraction from the important things in life.
Every society thinks they're important enough to witness the end of history.
I can't find this exact tablet on Google (it could be AI generated), but this is a meme, the text is made up. The tablet is definitely unrelated.
edit - well shit, duckduckgo got it.
http://blog.hmns.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cuneiform.png https://blog.hmns.org/2020/06/crazy-for-cuneiform-decoding-ancient-text/
Old Assyrian Trading Colony; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed – ca. 20th–19th century B.C.
it's a the Met museum https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/325851 4th picture.
This tablet is of a type used by the Assyrian merchants to track the income and expenses generated by caravan shipments. The cuneiform text, read from left to right, records not only the amount of silver invested in tin and textiles, but also the less commonly traded precious stone lapis lazuli, which was sourced from Afghanistan.
I like “sees themselves as important enough to be written about or listened to” as an interpretation
And today, everyone with a half baked opinion wants to start a podcast.
