The long history of older and younger people not seeing eye to eye
There’s something unquestionably evocative about the idea of treasure-hunters — perhaps scruffy Indiana-Jones types, breath still tainted by whiskey — carrying torches into an ancient tomb and discovering inscribed wisdom that is itself eternal. Our hero lifts a stone tablet from its dusty resting place and gently brushes it clean. There, in ancient Assyrian (his second language, happily) is a moral lesson as true now as it was then.