Many young people are still dreamers, which makes them wise. Many older people are finally wise, which makes them dream again. It’s in the middle years when so much pseudo-sophisticated complex foolishness jams the system.
“I think naivety and childishness are sometimes a good thing.” The great thing about youth, she says, is you’re not blinded by realpolitik and the assumption of compromise. “I do think older people make things more complicated than they actually are.” theguardian.com/environment/…

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Yeah but so what does that reveal? Those middle years are the ones people have to play with real stakes.
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How much science is there in determining people's wisdom by their age?
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"It would seem that the unfathomable wellsprings of cumulative human imagination, ingenuity, passion, and effort are not subject to any tether or constraint that cannot, over time, be unbound or circumvented." nanoappsmedical.com/the-book…
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The older generation is sociopathic
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That explains why you remain irrelevant.
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"... the assumption of compromise."... is another phrase for ... "Incrementalism"... which is the death of everything it touches!