Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last.
It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.
As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
I think each generation struggles with its own set of problems.
