I’m a Boomer. Young People Don’t Have Much to Learn from Us

>Age and experience don’t necessarily mean we have unique insights into a completely different world than the one in which we grew up.

Insights don't have to be extracted from or based on the current world to be applicable to the current world.

The most valuable insights are from those that have exeprienced a different world, as they have a frame of reference to analyze, value, etc the changes in this one.

Except if we make the naive mistake that "newer is better", so the old world ways are by definition useless, as there's no better thing there to consider adopting from the old world (since new things are better), no wisdom for the old world to impart on the new one (since new things are wiser), and no danger of regression to a worse world (since new is better, so anything new is an improvement).

That's an attitude often seen, and it shows a total lack of awarenes of history.

>Given the incredible pace of both technological and social change, it seems worth asking if the experiences—and, thus, knowledge and ideas—of elders should be taken as unquestionably and uncritically worthy of consideration by younger people.

Well, the "unquestionably and uncritically" is a strawman used to help beg the question. Who ever claimed so?

If we remove these weasel words, and change this into:

"it seems worth asking if the experiences—and, thus, knowledge and ideas—of elders should be taken as worthy of consideration by younger people."

the answer is an obvious yes.

What's funny is that the very thing that triggered the poster's musings was meant to arrive at the exact opposite conclusion than TFA:

> What triggered me to ask this question was an episode of the 1960s television classic, The Twilight Zone, called, “The Obsolete Man.” In a seemingly fascist future society with little use for books and knowledge, a humble librarian is sentenced to death on the grounds that he and his occupation are obsolete. While I’m neither a fan of fascism nor the death penalty, after watching the episode (with my 87-year-old father, I might add) I was troubled. Maybe, I thought, at 60—I’m obsolete.

Err, the whole point of the episode is that the old man's perspective is not only not obsolete, but saner than the change to that futuristic dystopia.

Amazing boomer thing to do

> If you exclude Hispanics

In that percentage of how many people are white in America. Ok Boomer.