Echoes from the past

Every generation thinks society is about to fall apart. I wonder why that is? The answers are alarmingly many and complex, so I'd like to drop my question, and just offer this, to end a perfectly short post. (By the way, I think ours or maybe the next generation will have the satisfaction of being right.)

Quote from 2,400 years ago: "And when people start to need lawyers and doctors, we have conclusive proof that the education system is worthless. Men in the courts before snoozing juries, trying to get remedies by legal trickery, is a proof positive that they don't have enough education to arrange their own lives properly. Just as disgraceful is going to the doctor, not with any real malady, but because they've filled their bodies with garbage, which the pompous medical profession manages to name as some new-fangled disease."