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Older people used to be considered wiser and respected. The baby-boomer generation basically invented ageism when they were young in the 70's, it's ironic to se

Older people used to be considered wiser and respected. The baby-boomer generation basically invented ageism when they were young in the 70's, it's ironic to see it bite them back now.

venomsnake 11y ago
It is about how you get old. Keep in shape and your brain sharp and you will be fine.
- ArkyBeagle 11y ago
  Round is a shape.
jpmattia 11y ago
The baby-boomer generation basically invented ageism when they were young in the 70's Earlier than that. The original "Never trust anyone over 30" was already a saying by the mid-sixties as a consequence of FSM: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement The movement itself was just another step in the protests of the civil liberties movement, and to some degree HUAC. I'm sure we could go back farther, but that's just off the top of my head. Essentially, every new generation denigrates the older generation, and each older generation thinks the newer generation is going to hell-in-a-handbasket. There is nothing new under the sun.
- Namrog84 11y ago
  Thanks for the wikipedia link. At first glance I was like what does the Flying Spaghetti Monster have to do with this.
  - zentiggr 11y ago
    omg, nose coffee... Thanks!
dominotw 11y ago
> The baby-boomer generation basically invented ageism when they were young in the 70's I am Not an American. Can you point me to any more info on this.
- ArkyBeagle 11y ago
  Much of it had to do with adaptation of advertising to television in the 1960s. That's where "the youth culture" started. "The Hidden Persuaders" - Vance Packard ISBN-13: 978-0978843106 is a good start. He's a bit crazy but it's a good read.
sandworm101 11y ago
> Older people used to be considered wiser and respected. Then people discovered the internet and learned what the 40s/50s were actually like, what they did, and what we are now saddled with. Those old wise men are now the emperor's new cloths. Edit: I originally said "those old wise men/women" but lets not kid ourselves. Most all the horrible decisions in those decades were taken by men.

Older people used to be considered wiser and respected. The baby-boomer generation basically invented ageism when they were young in the 70's, it's ironic to see it bite them back now.

venomsnake 11y ago

It is about how you get old. Keep in shape and your brain sharp and you will be fine.

ArkyBeagle 11y ago
Round is a shape.

jpmattia 11y ago

The baby-boomer generation basically invented ageism when they were young in the 70's Earlier than that. The original "Never trust anyone over 30" was already a saying by the mid-sixties as a consequence of FSM: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement The movement itself was just another step in the protests of the civil liberties movement, and to some degree HUAC. I'm sure we could go back farther, but that's just off the top of my head. Essentially, every new generation denigrates the older generation, and each older generation thinks the newer generation is going to hell-in-a-handbasket. There is nothing new under the sun.

Namrog84 11y ago
Thanks for the wikipedia link. At first glance I was like what does the Flying Spaghetti Monster have to do with this.
- zentiggr 11y ago
  omg, nose coffee... Thanks!

dominotw 11y ago

> The baby-boomer generation basically invented ageism when they were young in the 70's I am Not an American. Can you point me to any more info on this.

ArkyBeagle 11y ago
Much of it had to do with adaptation of advertising to television in the 1960s. That's where "the youth culture" started. "The Hidden Persuaders" - Vance Packard ISBN-13: 978-0978843106 is a good start. He's a bit crazy but it's a good read.

sandworm101 11y ago

> Older people used to be considered wiser and respected. Then people discovered the internet and learned what the 40s/50s were actually like, what they did, and what we are now saddled with. Those old wise men are now the emperor's new cloths. Edit: I originally said "those old wise men/women" but lets not kid ourselves. Most all the horrible decisions in those decades were taken by men.