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TIL the famous Socrates quote about children being disrespectful and having bad manners was actually a fabrication written by a Canadian college student in 1907 (quoteinvestigator.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

There is a legitimate quote from Plato in the Socratic dialogs that is relevant though...

Especially in this context:

Social media is RUINING OUR CHILDREN!
Video Games are RUINING OUR CHILDREN!
Rock and Roll is RUINING OUR CHILDREN!
Dungeons and Dragons is RUINING OUR CHILDREN!
Comic Books are RUINING OUR CHILDREN!
Jazz is RUINING OUR CHILDREN!
. . .
"they will appear to have condemned you rightly, for whose is a corrupter of the laws will appear in all likelihood to be a corrupter of youths and weak-minded men." Plato - Crito

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For people not following, he was saying that if he was the corrupter of youths and weak-minded men, then everyone else must be improvers. Because not everyone else are improvers (logically speaking in this argument), it means many people were responsible for the corruption and he alone is not responsible.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I remember that at one point, someone wrote this when books started becoming more accessible:

    Books are RUINING OUR CHILDREN!

    Just controlling parents wanting to dictate their children’s way of life since time immemorial. It’s an eternal battle.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    img

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Fabricated history...getting harder and harder to find truth out there if not impossible :(

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    TIL that this quote exists

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Wow

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Well, let's not tell anyone because this shuts the old yapper's clap trap it's good enough for me. Anyway, socrates didn't say anything because he was largely a made up composite character, Socrates is basically Aristotle's Fan Fic

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Technically that doesn't prove Socrates never said it, he might've, though it would be one hell of a coincidence. It amuses me to think we'll never know.

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