Generations

One thing apparent when reading tweets from and about Iran is the huge difference in attitudes between the naive idealism of the young and the weathered cynicism of the old. The Chesterton quotation in my signature is right on:

"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." -- G. K. Chesterton

Where does this leave us? Not far beyond humility.