Montesquieu

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Patterns in history repeat in part because we forget the lessons learned by our great grandparents and earlier generations. C’mon, they lived so long ago, they simply have no idea what we’re going through today, right?

Just like someone realizes sometime in his or her twenties that parents aren’t the complete idiots they appeared to be from a teenager’s perch, it’s worth taking the time every once in awhile to consider what wisdom the prior generations had that…