05-08-2009, 01:01 PM
(05-08-2009, 12:18 PM)yossarian Wrote: I guess to me anyone who is twice my age is considered old, but to you guys 80 year olds are old and you guys are not.
The best definition I have ever heard for "old" is: "15 years more than my current age". As such, I would agree that to me, being 64 seems almost unimaginable. And, by extension, I would propose that 38 would seem to you to have "crossed the line", so to speak. I accept that as reason enough not to try to convince you otherwise.
Quote:I really do think there is a generation gap based on age. I think growing up on the internet has had a huge affect on the way people think. Imagine how your life would be different if at 4 years old you had been surfing the net.. now realize there is an entire generation of people growing up who are doing exactly that. It's a new world.
To this point, I would reply that it is a necessary part of youth to always feel that the world is new and that the current environment, handled now properly, will unavoidably lead to an ever better world. This is both the blessing and the curse of youth, since it emboldens the young, but frequently causes them to ignore the lessons of the past. History is so breeming with examples (at least one per generation) that entire libraries have already been written on the subject.
To state that there is a "generation gap" though, is to me, simply an excuse to discount our perspectives and create a artificial divide that need not exist. Are we not all one? To paraphrase Ronald Reagan "I will not make an issue of your youth and inexperience in this discussion." I suggest that you offer me a similar courtesy and ignore my "old fashioned" ways. We all bring something valuable to this process and are much stronger together than artifically divided along generational lines.
All is well, my friend, now please let us move forward as one, in mutual respect of the pasts, presents, and futures that we each bring with us.
3D Sunset