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[–] whatdaheck ago (edited ago)
This. This to me is one of the saddest parts of the boomer existence. I fully understand that not all boomers are like this and there are faults within every generation, but I’m sure we’ve all heard that classic boomer rant before. “Im twice your age! You have to listen to me because I’m just SOOOoooOOOoo old!”
I understand that with age comes wisdom... but only when the choice is made to actively cultivate knowledge and to have the humility to learn from experiences. Boomers have witnessed that age begets wisdom, but they somehow took it literally. It turns out that aging on the couch passively starring at Anderson Prolapsed Pooper on CNN address all the fake things to worry about isn’t what creates great thinkers.
I feel disheartened for the grandchildren of the boomers. The experience of having a sage older person who is invested in them and gives profound advice will be missing, and replaced with this attention seeking, psycho stunted narcissist. Perhaps it’ll create a new kind of wisdom. After all, wise men learn more from fools than fools do from wise men.