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Originally Posted by Sregener
Actually, it's established fact that everyone thinks things were better in the "good old days." . . . . The standards of behavior are looser today, but the urge of the young to press against boundaries and rebel are a constant.
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I'd have to say, after reading your second sentence above, that the first one is an established fact no longer
I personally think it's too broad to say that one generation is better or worse, overall, than another. But people who grew up in the 1930's were, on average, harder workers. My anecdotal evidence is that my parents, ages 87 and 88, still work. Maybe the current near-depression will produce another generation of hard workers.
And there does seem solid evidence, in the US, for a
decline in book reading:
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The decline was especially great among the youngest people surveyed, ages 18 to 24. Only 43 percent had read any literature in 2002, down from 53 percent in 1992.
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As for newspaper reading, it is obviously down among the young. Going antedotal again, my father in law, an auto mechanic, always read the daily paper. Seems to me pretty uncommon among his young counterparts.
Can anyone find more recent, and similarly reliable, book reading statistics than what is in my link above?