THAT CYNICAL ATTITUDE
“Youth may think the generation which is passing,” states the Western Morning News, “has made rather a mess of things and left them an indifferent legacy. Such a feeling is not unnatural. One of the privileges of youth is to think meanly of its immediate predecessors and despise their achievements. If ever there were excuse for such a cynical attitude it is to be found in the history of the last, quarter of a century and the present state of affairs. Youth can turn upon its mentors with a reminder that the greatest war in history brought our boasted civilisation to the verge of ruin and yet was so far from conveying a lesson and a warning that every nation is now engaged in preparing for another outbreak to complete the catastrophe. The boom of sharing in the government of the country is, in fact, so little appreciated that its every extension has been marked by the display of increasing indifference. Doubt may well be felt as to the future of democracy when in practice only about half the electors can be persuaded to go to the poll.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3938, 11 August 1937, Page 4
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