“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.”

Horace, Book III of Odes, circa 20 BCE

“Youth were never more sawcie, yea never more savagely saucie . . . the ancient are scorned, the honourable are contemned, the magistrate is not dreaded.”

The Wise-Man’s Forecast against the Evill Time, Thomas Barnes 1624

Some more here https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-a...

Either things have gotten continually worse for the last 3000 years or it’s just a tired trope from old men.