Some things don’t change: attitudes towards young people
The sentiments of this quote may sound familiar:
The young people have no reverence for their parents; they are impatient of all restraint, they talk as if they alone know everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness for them.
The author? Peter the Hermit. The time? The eleventh century.
So recent? What about
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero d. 43 BC
Society has very little respect as a whole for Age, Diversity if any kind. No where us it more evident than in the workplace where organizations have to be threatened with lawsuits on order to force them to treat ALL workers without discriminating against them. Still the worker usually must suffer extensively before they are believed. Race, Age, and sexual orientation discrimination will always be a problem in a society which values sameness and has disdain for difference. People can observe the suffering of their co-workers and never come to speak on their behalf; this we have the syndrome psychologists call the Bystander Effect or the spectator. In my book I detail how my supervisor violently hit me on the back in a room full of professional witnesses yet not one would come forth. The book How Organizations Empower The Bully Boss discusses the costs organizations pay for incivility practised by bosses.