“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households."
Just because it's been said many times before, doesn't mean it was wrong each of those times. There may be periods where children get worse, and times when children get better. I believe your 'rebuttal' is whig history; a fallacy wherein you assume that history has a linear narrative, trending inexorably only in one direction.
Where is the society of Socrates today? Athenian hegemony peaked during Socrates lifespan. But you assume his observations about the declining society he was witness to are wrong? Why? Because we have such marvelous advanced technologies and social ideas today and you interpolate a straight line between these points? That interpolation is whig history.
- Socrates, over 2,500 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_these_days