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Go ask highschool teachers in 1990 what they thought. It's the same shit every generation.
"But the kids today are so much more violent!"
Nah, you just see kids being normal amounts of violent because they have cameras on them 24/7
For fun, I went through some old newspapers and really, nothing ever changes. Here's one from 1959:
It even has the theme of "most generations think the younger generation is out of hand, but we're really right this time." So it has always been.
Source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96060044/1959-06-29/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1770&sort=relevance&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=5&words=generation+generations&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=This+generation&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=4