Maybe I am just becoming a crabby old man, but it seems to me that young adults generally regard older people as irrelevant, washed-up fools without redeeming social capital to make making their acquaintance worthwhile in the mad competition to gain popularity and a reputation with the in-crowd, whoever they are.
I grew up in a rural community in uncool, rural North Dakota. Respect for elders and a generic kindness towards and protection of the elderly was built into our value system. That code seems to be rapidly disappear today in urban areas--yet another sign of our moral decline.
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