Reducing kernel-maintainer burnout

Reducing kernel-maintainer burnout

I suspect that you both are right. Take a look on quote from Aristotle just above your message. People also like to boring earlier Socrates: The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

I don't know why mb brought that quote but it makes me queasy: does he understand context for these quotes or not? Does he want to read and laugh “oh, yeah, wise people told the same thousands of years ago… humanity is still around, everything would be fine… just relax”. Or maybe he wants to support johannbg? It's really hard without him saying anything.

Let me remind you something. Both Socrates and, later, Aristotle lived in a failing former hegemon state: state that had rich history, which was, many years before, a full-blown hegemon of Ancient Greece… but was clearly past it's zenith of power and on the road of the irreversible decline!

Do they forget about that or just simply don't know? Note that Athen's greatest achievements in the philosophy and culture happened after that period which wouldn't have been possible if all young people were awful. Some were quite bright, indeed, but most of the great people in that period weren't born in Athens anymore.

I think what we are observing now is similar phenomena: Western Civilization is collapsing, the majority of young people are useless for mankind, but there are still enough bright people who may still do many great things.