When you are young and your mind is
churning and turning over everything that
you read and hear and learn and you begin
to trust your cerebral functioning and believe
in your intelligence and you have an opinion
to ventilate and few will listen because you're
simply too young to know the answers to
questions that the social order grapples with
you sigh and turn inward until eventually you
speak the code that others do who listen to you
since your opinion echoes theirs and any that
fail to are tucked safely away from scrutiny.
In time you are elderly and discover a very
different ethos and culture eludes you. Best
keep your experience and knowledge within
airing it exclusively between peers. For in
the opinion of earlier generations it is not
wisdom that age has conferred upon you
but a certain arch unknowingness rendering
current social mores totally foreign. Whatever
you say is received as archaic and 'cute' not in
the sense of foxy intelligence but as one speaks
of the antics of a puppy, the innocence of a
child. From child to adult to senior = infancy.
Your senses fail but not your sensibilities.
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