They're out of touch. Even in traditional societies with elders, the elders were just middle age. Old age is “retired elder.” And old people have traditionally, when they say dumb things out of touch with the times, been called “old fools.” So is it time to judge the elderly as old fools and disregard them, and make this a widespread thing, when they speak of that of which they do not know?
They're out of touch. Even in traditional societies with elders, the elders were just middle age. Old age is “retired elder.” And old people have traditionally, when they say dumb things out of touch with the times, been called “old fools.”
So is it time to judge the elderly as old fools and disregard them, and make this a widespread thing, when they speak of that of which they do not know?