Comments on: The Generation Gap: To Be or Not To Be

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By: Kriss

Kriss — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:44:48 +0000

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By: Dorothy Dalton

Dorothy Dalton — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:04:57 +0000

Kriss this is an excellent starting point for a great debate! Lots of threads but just some things to toss out there!

I understand the underlying thesis of what you’re saying about the reluctance of some members of a generation to accept the aging process. But historically in all cultures and civilisations youth has been revered: for women it was related to child bearing capacity and men to physical attributes! Now in some sectors of modern culture improvements in diet, housing, healthcare – have changed that. People are healthier longer, have children later and can expect extended longevity or an extended active lifestyle. This changes perceptions and expectations.

But that extract from the New Yorker reads like foreign language to me – I had no idea what they were talking about in that brand list and this applies surely to a very narrow demographic of urban yuppies. As big business taps into the insecurities of an aging population with all sorts of ways of turning back time ( plastic surgery , creams, potions, diets etc ) to make huge profits and psychologists urge us to be in touch with our “inner child”, there are huge mixed messages out there. I don’t think that because someone wears a certain brand of shoe usually reserved for Gen Y ( who says that anyway and who cares apart from journalists and brand managers?) necessarily and automatically makes them any less responsible in their lives. Which fashion police dictates what is appropriate for older people to wear? Nor does vocabulary boyfriend /girlfriend etc really mean anything. This is about public labelling and a need to be defined within the context of a relationship. They’re just words.

Since time immemorial revered older men, “pillars” in their communities have had dalliances with younger women. I’m not sure that this struggle with the aging process is that new. Perhaps for reasons connected to affluence and developments in modern medicine now more and more people are able to do something about it – hence the rise in plastic surgery.

For me what is important really is what people do with their lives and how they treat each other.

Great topic – thank you!