Nietzsche delighting in the Odes of Horace

"Aetas parentum pejor avis tulit nos nequiores,
mox daturos progeniem vitiosiorem." --Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Odes, III. 6.

"Our parents' days our grandsires and our granddams used to curse.
Compare us with our parents -- ponder our degeneration!
And gosh, our kids are getting even worse!" --Franklin Adams translation
http://www.merriampark.com/horace.htm

http://classics.mit.edu/Horace/hor.carm.html

Horace may be critical in this century as collective mind, now promotedby the technocrats as well as the socialists, threatens to annihilatethe value and nobility of the individual.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature5/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence

http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/GotDamer.html