w-45d5

‘Children ought to be seen and not heard’ was formerly accepted as a wise counsel. In a society that equated grayness as maturity and folly with the young, such counsel belied wisdom of the past.
20th century showed of what worth was the rule of conventional wisdom. Two Great Wars of which only the old had any interest, brought their hold come crashing down: it was natural the youth ask themselves: ‘What makes the old (who reached the end of the road) think they know better than us?’
Self-interest in the old and idealism of the young shall never agree. Such a realization caused great unrest in the sixties and Seventies and in the ensuing trouble the old order changed beyond repair.
Gerontocracy was a thing of the past.
benny