Is the Pendulum Swinging?

Every new generation of americans, where the pendulum swings this way and then swings back. It kind of seems a little el youknow, like an elevator that goes up too fast and then comes down too fast. I think we're going to have to suffer a great deal more than we're suffering right now because people are complaisant about evil incarnate. And i'm convinced my students of evil won't go for what is threatening to do that's right. But one has to have some sort of faith that each generation,. just like in my generation, i would have resented itf the preceding generation had said, you can't solve these problems. You need your elders.