Question:“On the generation gap”
On the generation gap
A generation gap is the same word learned in two different eras. The word is the same; its value differs. That is why the fight always breaks out over a single word.
Next time the frustration comes, instead of “That is wrong,” ask “When did you learn that.” Hearing the when reveals the why, and once the why is visible, wrong becomes different.
Nestor told the young men that the men of his own youth had been better. Achilles and Agamemnon both listened and bore it. That was three thousand years ago.