…..is that belief systems lose their malleability. The rigidity that arises turns people off
because the opportunity for discourse is lost.
Not all aged people get trapped into the cyclone of absolutism but
unfortunately most do. When there’s little
room to maneuver then a sense of suffocation pervades the theatre.
Chris Evert is one classy lady but maybe it’s her age that
had her fixated on certain victory for Serena Williams in the Wimbledon final
today when commentating without giving sufficient chances to the higher seeded
opponent. A nice comeback by Radwanska
in the second set almost had Evert looking like a homer.
Then there are the arrogant aged scientists that think they
have a firm grasp on the universe’s composition only to be outdone by the
younger generation’s propensity for broadening hypotheses. Evidence of this “God Particle” as coined by
media intelligentsia now has many a wise scientist doing back flips.
Learned veteran financial market analysts are habitually
wrong about movements in the market but still continue to espouse their
futurist forecasts with the glib of certainty that becomes amusing to those
versed in their record.
This sampling of intransigent thinking beckons the question
of why more attention isn’t given to broadcasts of opinion more colored with
humility and open to possibility bereft from the pragmatic.
