MiloCast

They say that age brings wisdom. They say you should respect your elders. They say children should be seen and not heard. Well, just who the hell are “they,” anyway? The idea that older equals wiser is so ridiculous that it should be laughed at, not treated as insightful.

Respect must be earned. It is not awarded when you reach a certain age. Look at the amazing decrease in racism in the last generation. The largest reason for this is that the older people with the outdated views have been dying out, and the younger people have refused to perpetuate their nonsense. Remember when you were a kid? How often were you frustrated that you weren’t taken seriously because you were “just a kid”? You knew that a lot of adults were dumb. If you’re an adult now, keep that in mind when you’re talking to someone younger. I mean, as an adult, don’t you know a lot of dumb adults?

You are no different from old people or kids in diapers. The only real difference is when you were born. Obviously kids are not mature or responsible enough to do certain things like drive, handle firearms, or make decisions about which drugs they should ingest. Many senior citizens don’t have the wits about them to do the same things. But for the most part, people are people.

I’m not advocating taking orders from children, or disregarding advice from anyone with wrinkles. However, it makes more sense to listen to someone, young or old, and then decide. If you are reading this, you were once an “irrelevant” age, and hopefully you’ll live to be an “irrelevant” age again. Let’s try to spread this idea, with the hope that the whole world will benefit.