As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline-the illusion of the good old days. (Steven Pinker)

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline-the illusion of the good old days.

Steven Pinker

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