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To: epicure who wrote (215155)	1/20/2013 11:42:01 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541777

I now work with people mostly in their 20's and 30's - they have a can-do attitude that is totally refreshing relative to where I was. I want to be part of that sense of empowerment! The typical big company people in their 40's and 50's (my age!) seemed to be anti-innovative and reactionary in their engineering, approach, and generally, risk-averse - like nothing can be better than they have done before because if it were that easy it would have been done or someone (else) would have thought of it... etc.

To: epicure who wrote (215155)	1/20/2013 3:06:32 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541777

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.