Combating Societal Change - Plato

“’Then doesn’t it follow, as we said to begin with, that the amusements in which our children take part must be better regulated; because once they and the children become disorderly, it becomes impossible to produce serious citizens with a respect for order?’” – Plato Republic, 424e Plato argues that the reasonable men in his republic will learn to be so only through a system of education and upbringing that is strictly controlled. This is …

…characterize their amusements as vulgar or lacking moral fiber just as Plato describes them as disorderly. Maybe we are simply uncomfortable with change as we grow old, and this is a common reaction to the world in its constant state of flux. Perhaps the attitude of youth acts as a societal barometer, measuring its rise or decline. Attempts to maintain status quo are futile in as much as we cannot control the evolution of life