
RIP “Carpe Diem”: The #YOLO Plague
I’ve noticed an increasingly disturbing trend among young kids on Twitter where Horace’s “carpe diem” attitude is slowly moving over to make room for the destructive attitudes behind this #YOLO hashtag (meaning: “you only live once”). Horace (65 BCE – 8 CE) wrote a poem with the first known usage of the term “carpe diem,”...