To add on to my previous thought the part about the teacher shows a lack of interest in history playing into the idea those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it and these students don’t care, don’t learn, and repeat the cycle.
Kids These Days
Lyrics
Oh kids these days
They don't have respect
They just talk on those cellphones
And listen to their tape cassettes
It's what that teacher said
With disgust in every breath
His students listened carelessly
They were easily unimpressed
He said it with such conviction
Whether truth or fiction
And it went
Round and round
They'd reinvent the wheel
Watch it spin and marvel
At the breakthrough
They had found
Another war to end all wars
Depressions are no more
Gravity works on occasion
It won't always bring you to the floor
It's a Spanish questionnaire
Conquest through love affair
A trillion here or there
I'm sure it'll work with a little prayer
He said it with such conviction
Whether truth or fiction
And it went
Round and round
They'd reinvent the wheel
Watch it spin and marvel
At the breakthrough
They had found
They'd reinvent the wheel
Watch it spin and marvel
At the breakthrough
They had found
He said it with such conviction
Whether truth or fiction
And it went
Round and round
They'd reinvent the wheel
Watch it spin and marvel
At the breakthrough
They had found
They'd reinvent the wheel
Watch it spin and marvel
At the breakthrough
They had found
Writer(s): DANIEL LEE KONGOS
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I always interpreted it as a metaphor on the repetition of history with the kids these days verse illustrating how the old always look down on the youth. Furthermore the line “another war to end all wars, depressions are no more” shows how these large wars keep starting again and again that are supposed to end all of them and how this depression should be the last but it repeats. Of course this is all symbolized in the wheel that spins round and round repeating the cycle and each time they “reinvent the wheel” meaning they do the same cycle in a different way in a different time. That’s my interpertaion at least
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