I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.
Patrick WhiteTags: wisdom youth old-age myths disbelief farting false-teeth senility
It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics children united-states fairies hero-worship senility john-f-kennedy kennedy-family puerility robert-dallek robert-f-kennedy
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