Monika Dubauskaitė. when Adults Speak From Above and Then Are Surprised that Young People Don't Kneel

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“A terrible generation is growing up,” says an adult who has just yelled at a child, called him lazy, a drug addict, or “without values,” and now sincerely wonders why the child didn’t thank him for the life lesson. And this is usually said in a tone as if he himself had raised at least three Nobel Prize winners and five morality policemen, and then suddenly a teenager on a scooter rolled into the store and destroyed civilization. Not wars, not …