Whatever this means, it sounds like "The grass was always greener in the pastures of my memory" or some such, which is true but not relevant to, you know, actual history.
That, and it seems axiomatic among the PC crowd that Kids These Days are getting dumber and dumber, which has held true so long that it's amazing that our great-grandparents qualified as sentient beings, as opposed to, say, slime mold.
You remember the fun stuff as more fun and deep the farther you are away from it. Its polished by age. This results in people believing that things were better then. I'm sorry, but I don't write formally on HN, and I doubt if I ever will.
As to the rest, I think my example was enough to say I don't think generation has much to do with deepness or intelligence.
Whatever this means, it sounds like "The grass was always greener in the pastures of my memory" or some such, which is true but not relevant to, you know, actual history.
That, and it seems axiomatic among the PC crowd that Kids These Days are getting dumber and dumber, which has held true so long that it's amazing that our great-grandparents qualified as sentient beings, as opposed to, say, slime mold.