Peach & Jamón Salad

20220805 #breakfastdiary 516, 27°C/mostly cloudy, 10min/exercise The prettiest peach in the world with jamón, olive oil, and plenty and plenty of pepper. #peachjamonsalad Even Homer's Iliad keeps saying things like, "The mighty men of old could lift a boulder alone and hurl it at the enemy, while today's young men are too feeble to lift the same stone even with two of them." It also frets, "I worry for the future of the polis." Socrates, too, is said to have complained that "the young these days chew on food wherever they please and have no manners." The same held true in the East—in Han Feizi's chapter "The Five Vermin," there's a scathing line about the youth of the time: "Here is a wretched young man—his parents scold him and he does not change, his neighbors curse him and he does not budge, his teacher instructs him and he will not be moved. Even with the combined help of a parent's love, a neighborhood's example, and a teacher's wisdom, he remains utterly unmoved, not a single hair on his shin altered." Lim Hong-taek, Here Comes Generation 90s One formula for a bestseller is surely to draw out the reader's sense of recognition, and in that sense, #HereComesGeneration90s struck me as an impressively thorough catalog of the utterly obvious. Would it really be any different for Gen MZ? There are simply people who are like that, and people who aren't.