Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months ago"Nobody wants to work", a brief historyhexbear.netimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down10
arrow-up1118arrow-down1image"Nobody wants to work", a brief historyhexbear.netAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareBoomkop3@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-211 months agoI will be checking this for myself, this is kinda like the “kids and their [insert modern media here]”
minus-squareJohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 months agothere’s another good one like this about kids not reading, going back to e.g. newspapers on the train and nobody will talk to eachother and then ancient greeks “kids these days and their reading, nobody will ever remember anything!”
minus-squareKobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoAnd if you go far back enough it’s complaining that kids are reading instead of committing themselves to memorizing things by rote.
minus-squareJohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agowell i guess you didn’t memorize my comment by rote either
minus-squareKobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoFuck I could have sworn you didn’t mention that.
minus-squareBoomkop3@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThat was Plato “the written word is poison to the mind” or something like that
I will be checking this for myself, this is kinda like the “kids and their [insert modern media here]”
there’s another good one like this about kids not reading, going back to e.g. newspapers on the train and nobody will talk to eachother and then ancient greeks “kids these days and their reading, nobody will ever remember anything!”
And if you go far back enough it’s complaining that kids are reading instead of committing themselves to memorizing things by rote.
well i guess you didn’t memorize my comment by rote either
Fuck I could have sworn you didn’t mention that.
That was Plato “the written word is poison to the mind” or something like that