old person

For an old man like me, "young person" should be thought of as "someone I don't understand and can't admit to. If we only accept those who understand, we will all grow old together. https://twitter.com/tks/status/1456126887734886400?s=21

I sympathize with the direction, but I feel uncomfortable with the expression and am trying to figure out what is causing the discomfort.

After two days of reviewing it, I understand a little more.

• Feeling of drawing clear boundaries between oneself and the youth False dichotomy.
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• First, the imaginary Mr. A thinks that "there are young people who 'I can understand and tolerate' and those who are 'inexcusable' and those who are 'not so inexcusable'.
  • Implicitly ignoring or downplaying the values of young people who don't understand them.
  • Ignore them so they appear to be a minority.
• Mr. T. says the antithesis to that is that the latter is the majority.
  • Ignoring the values of young people who don't understand will leave them with old values.
• What bothered Nishio was that this discussion dichotomized the set of "youth" into "those that can be understood" and "those that cannot be understood."
  • In reality, understanding is a gradient

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