An Interesting Article, I'm Surprised It Wasn't Posted Earler....

[jackthehat]

It is certainly true that people become more conservative as they get older,
perhaps this article explains why...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5921739/Older-people-really-racist-Prejudices-grow-feel-anxious-death.html

[gulliver1]

Talbot.20.47, Correct, Tweedle Dee, and Tweedle Dumb. Leave you to work out the sequence, OK.

[andy-hughes]

I have to confess that I have become less conservative as I have aged.

I was always violently opinionated in my twenties, and everything tended to be black or white.


Now, at sixty-three, I seem more able to see the other point of view, and indeed, allow for the fact that there actually is another point of view!

I am aware that this will come as a severe shock to some on here, who have me pegged is arrogant and intolerant, but happily, the main culprits appear to be finding their amusement elsewhere than picking pointless fights on here, and the site is all the better for it.


So I can't agree with the research - I rejoice in my independence of thinking, and become less inclined to huddle with others to warm the chilly drafts of imagined insecurity and paranoia - I leave that to the usual regulars!

[douglas9401]

What's for dinner?

[Jerome57]

I thought that was just 'wisdom' allowing us to speak our minds a little more freely (obviously not any of the unpleasant 'isms').

[rowanwitch]

It is a strange conflict that as our physical horizons contract with age and or infirmity those of us lucky enough to retain our mental acuity can expand our mental horizons. I was always tolerant and accepting but now I find I can also apply my knowledge and understand the reasons behind what is happening. At the same time I know many of my generation and older have become increasingly worried and angry about what they see as negative changes. They choose to blame specific ethnic groups or political parties, but surprisingly none seem to blame our generation for any of the problems.

[-Talbot-]

Now, at sixty-three, I seem more able to see the other point of view, and indeed, allow for the fact that there actually is another point of view!



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ROFPMSL

[andy-hughes]

// … but happily, the main culprits appear to be finding their amusement elsewhere than picking pointless fights on here, and the site is all the better for it. //

I stand corrected - sadly.

[Cloverjo]

Of all the people that I've known who have grown old in my life time, I'd say all of them have stayed as racist, liberal, conservative - with or without a capital C - or whatever as they always have been.
This is no more scientific than anything in the DM report, though.