Stupidity or evolution?

Back when I was a freshman in high school (yeah, it’s that far back in my past), well, actually way back, when I was in middle school, I always was told about the students older than me, how they are so awesome, how their achievements within the various school Olympiads meant something, how we would never grow up to be like them, how they were 100x better than us, how our behavior, our knowledge, the time spent studying was zero compared to theirs.

But then, we finished high school, and I’ve seen my teachers cry as we walked out of the school, I’ve seen them shed tears for losing us. I’ll be honest, my family didn’t cry for me, and my teachers did. I guess we actually did grow on them, didn’t we? We were appreciated…

And now, the next generation, of course they’ll be told what we were told, but… Apparently, neither of them seem to have made a good impression, they seem not to be able to live up to the expectations our teachers had from us. Ever since I left middle school I was faced with the… Doubtful behavior (so to speak) of the ones younger than me. I mean, what the fuck man, we were bad but not that bad. Such a high degree of depravation, the lack of any fundamental morality, and above all, the abominable stupidity… I start to lose my hope in humanity… Or, well, in its progress.

Where is the progress we were supposed to have, yes, I have my doubts even about my own int elect, about my morality, about anything and everything I stand for, about the fact that I judge the others without maybe remembering that I was once one like them… But am I stupid / ignorant / hypocritical / blind / narrow minded for actually thinking that they have no hope, that I think that I’m better than them?

It’s everywhere… And I… Feel more and more isolated, in a world full of people who are morally opposed to me, all in all, the small glimmer of hope still shines… The fewer and fewer young “mutants” that seem not to respect the pattern.