Slum Life In New York City During the Nineteenth Century's Gilded Age

[Armstead]

16. Thanks...actually that goes with my "Baby Theory of Life"

That is, we are a perpetually immature, babylike, world because of the short human lifespan.

We start out as babies and progress to immature children. Then, just as we start to learn lessons, and see patterns and gain maturity, we die and are replaced by a new crop of babies. And the process repeats itself.

So at any given point in time the planet is populated by a bunch of whiny immature infants and children aged 0 to 70 or 80 or thereabouts.

Obviously, there is also a collective repository of accumulated knowledge and wisdom. Otherwise we'd still be in the Stone Age. But we tend to ignore that repository because we're immature.