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8/2/2025, 2:54:12 PM
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>They don't live with their children anymore. They don't have a local community to contribute to. Nobody respects them since the world has changed so much that their "wisdom" and "knowledge" are useless.
It's not only that. The "sexual revolution" in the 1960s, especially the Hippies, started the worshipping of youth. Michel Houellebecq accurately hinted at how dehumanizing it was to become old in the modern western world. In our modern world, you could be a swinger, bisexual, transsexual, sodomite, or sadomasochist, but it is forbidden to be old. And the loose morals that are so charming, refreshing, and tempting in young people can only become the repulsive behavior of an old pig who refuses to leave the stage.
I think what hit old people the most today is the internet. Wisdom and experience doesn't mean shit anymore, when a 12 year old has access to the same knowledge as an 85 year old. It's even worse, as young people are faster learners and simply outperform older people in processing speed. The other big point that gets overlooked is a demographic one: in the far past, when way more people died to war, poverty and disease, old people were simply more rare, thus more valuable. Today it's the exact opposite: all western countries suffer from a huge burden of old people, who won't die due to modern medicine and relative peace. We suffer from an inflation of geriatric individuals. And just like with any inflated fiat currency in the economic sector, this "oversupply" also makes old people worthless, because there's just so many of them.
>They don't live with their children anymore. They don't have a local community to contribute to. Nobody respects them since the world has changed so much that their "wisdom" and "knowledge" are useless.
It's not only that. The "sexual revolution" in the 1960s, especially the Hippies, started the worshipping of youth. Michel Houellebecq accurately hinted at how dehumanizing it was to become old in the modern western world. In our modern world, you could be a swinger, bisexual, transsexual, sodomite, or sadomasochist, but it is forbidden to be old. And the loose morals that are so charming, refreshing, and tempting in young people can only become the repulsive behavior of an old pig who refuses to leave the stage.
I think what hit old people the most today is the internet. Wisdom and experience doesn't mean shit anymore, when a 12 year old has access to the same knowledge as an 85 year old. It's even worse, as young people are faster learners and simply outperform older people in processing speed. The other big point that gets overlooked is a demographic one: in the far past, when way more people died to war, poverty and disease, old people were simply more rare, thus more valuable. Today it's the exact opposite: all western countries suffer from a huge burden of old people, who won't die due to modern medicine and relative peace. We suffer from an inflation of geriatric individuals. And just like with any inflated fiat currency in the economic sector, this "oversupply" also makes old people worthless, because there's just so many of them.
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