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Do people become less of a twat as they age?
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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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Some get better, some get worse. You really can't generalize this. A friend of mine used to say that "we have to ditch the wise elder, because some people accumulate stupidity with age instead of wisdom"
For years now I've responded to anybody saying we should "respect our elders" by saying "they just don't make elders like they used to."
It was easy to be old and wise when the world only changed on a scale of centuries. Now it's easy to see large cultural changes every decade or less; the wisdom of somebody who came of age in the 1950s is of no value today if they've learned nothing else since.
Stupid people didn't live to be that old back in the day lol
There are aspects of the world that don’t change.