'What is the use of the 'Pops'?

3 comments to ‘What is the use of the ‘Pops’?” c.1963

• QuestionableAdvice

  April 20, 2011 at 2:17 pm · Reply

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• Mark

  August 21, 2011 at 1:54 pm · Reply

  The more things change the more they remain the same:( Why can’t we get past this “things where better in my day” infantileism I CANNOT understand:(

• Cody

  December 17, 2011 at 5:39 pm · Reply

  Mark, here is a quote from Plato’s Republic where he more or less complains about the same thing (indirectly). Its pretty much the oldest story on the book…

  Very true, he said.
  Thus educated, they will invent for themselves any lesser rules which
  their predecessors have altogether neglected.

  What do you mean?
  I mean such things as these: –when the young are to be silent before
  their elders; how they are to show respect to them by standing and
  making them sit; what honour is due to parents; what garments or shoes
  are to be worn; the mode of dressing the hair; deportment and manners
  in general. You would agree with me?