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Re: How to Get New Members to Stay?
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Originally Posted by dirtbikerxz
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that freshmen are getting less and less mature each year? I'm a sophmore right now, the freshman class last year (the one i was in) was mature and dedicated to the work. The freshman before us were even more mature. But this years freshman are a bunch of goofballs who like to pretend to drill each others brains out and take nothing seriously, and I've been told that next year is even worse  . |
In Book III of Odes, circa 20 BC, Horace wrote:
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Originally Posted by Horace
Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'.
We, their sons, are more worthless than they;
so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
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I took that Horace quotation from the page at this URL Get off my lawn, pull up your pants, turn down that racket, take out that piercing, get a haircut, cover up that tattoo, put on some decent clothes, stop staring at your phone, and get a real job. 
There are 14 additional quotes there. One rails against silk umbrellas;  another against playing too much chess. Apparently there was very little entropy in human society long ago, because things have been steadily going downhill for over 2000 years, and we haven't hit bottom yet.
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