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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (215155)1/20/2013 3:06:32 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 541737
 
There are two types of old people. Those who exhibit a curvilinear intellectual behavior i.e. up and then down. Because they did not have the curiosity to keep learning. They did not reach for the edge of knowledge.

Then there are those old people like George Bernard Shaw, a beacon of civility, that just got smarter and smarter and lived to the ripe old age of 96, fighting for the common man his whole life.

They say he was smart as hell right up to the end. He fought the good fight for humanity his whole life with sophistication and the power of the pen.

The kids don't have the same learning time and mostly cannot understand problems with the same sophistication the old folks who keep learning can.

Kids are mostly frivolous, as they should be and quite naive. Very few suffer through an existential depression.

Mostly boyfriend/girlfriend depressions-lol.

I prefer the kind thinkers whatever age they are.

<<Young people are amazing. And I prefer them to old people. Some older people are fantastic- and retain their intellectual curiosity, and openness, and curiosity, and low levels of fear- because so many older folks get so damn fearful, over nothing. We've got some amazing older American here, on this thread.

But for the most part, I prefer the young. That's where the life is, and that's where the future is.
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