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Originally Posted by Pub-911
By definition, the elders have seen first-hand an entire array of things that youth was simply born too late to observe on any comparable basis. When the young become old (as they do in a dynamic world), they will finally have boarded that same boat.
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Two things I see wrong (as an elder myself). I see people my age DENYING the things they lived through. Like the S&L meltdown. Second thing, elders are created unequal. Some accept that there were no WMDs, some swear there were AND, despite Germany's contradiction, Saddam Hussein was conspiring with Al Qaeda. So even though I think the very young are way too eager to propose they are invulnerable to outworn notions, more likely to see things clearly, you can't assign respect by age. You do it by eyeing their commentary critically. Not a simple matter, but there is no other way.