Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been … - Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead

Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old. ' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be. '. . . the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

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