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The adults used to make the same complaints when I was a kid. Some things never change.
Go ask highschool teachers what they think of the current generation.
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
So shows get dumber with each generation?
No, you probably don't remember the crappy ones from when you were a kid, but they were there. Survivorship bias.