Re: Some questions for Curezoners - on aging

"For the young folks... How do you see the elders in your life?"

Another middle of the age-road opinion. I too have almost always enjoyed mixing and observing with people of all ages. Like going to a picnic or public outing and striking up a conversation with what is considered "a stranger". It doesn't always work out this way, but a lotta times, strangers make for good conversation. #1, since they don't know each other, this sometimes drops a veil, so to speak, and allows people to open up...... in a "what they hey, I don't know this person" kind of way.

About older people, I've always enjoyed talking to older people as I've found they often times have good stories to tell, one's I haven't heard before, and many times these stories have nuggets of wisdom (or bearing). One change I've noticed over my time is like Trapper says, there are not nearly as many older people around anymore.... in a relative kind of way, both pun intended as well as in the literal sense. IE> when I was a kid, everyone was older than me, but this seems to have changed for my generation now that I'm middle o' the road.

About young people, I've always enjoyed talking to them too. For one reason, it partly involves a sense of staying connected to what it is like to still be young. I find that young people also have good stories to tell, but even though these usually (but not always) are variants of one's I've experienced myself as a youngster, sometimes I can be surprised.

A big change I've noticed in my lifetime is that conversation, especially substantive consversation, really is a fading/dieing art form. For people of all ages, I sense that people by and large are becoming more and more afraid of the interaction that is required for convsersation to occur. Especially for the young people, it's my opinion that among the reasons they are not as prone to conversation as they once were is because they do not know how to talk - literally, many of them can only mimic catch phrases they pick up from movies, commercials and music stars and computer games. This seems to be pretty good evidence that social engineering on various fronts is and continues to be effective; the fronts of this assault are numerous, but a few of the big ones - dumbing-down efforts via systematic OBE method of education coupled with one of the main substitutes to education - constant propaganda via the media/TV, have really taken hold of the young people. As sucessive generations of young people ensue during the next decade or so, dissent from the masses will continue to become less of a possibility. It makes sense that as new generations of kids are not properly taught how to think, not only do they lose the capacity for communication, they lose the capacity to form their own thoughts. The notions of dissent will eventually be completely foreign to them, except perhaps for some yarn they may hear from old folks. Today's middle-agers will be the old-timers for tomorrow's young people :) Tweet