Each generation is reacting to the one before and it usually takes about a full generation to realize that's what it's doing, fix things and seek to perpetuate it's repairs on the next one...which kind of keeps the cycle going.
You see it in higher education. You see it in religious life. You see it in the way we parent. This can be frightening, enlightening and freeing, all at the same time -- we don't have quite as much ingenuity as we think we do. What goes around, comes around....
Every generation blames the one before....
-- Mike & the Mechanics
