Why is ageism suddenly all the rage on DU?

[Warpy]

70. There is always going to be intergenerational friction

between the young and old, it's just built into out genes. The young are seen by the old as arrogant and somewhat witless and the old are seen as being set in their ways and anti progress.

When we're forced to sit down and do some real thinking about it, we have to realize that the young only seem that way because they don't have as many years of experience under their belts and if they knew what we do in their 20s, most of them would blow their brains out. The old, especially those of us on the wrong side of 60, have physiological reasons for moving a little more slowly, have learned to work more efficiently since we can't work faster, and have already been down the road the young are just starting on.

The fact that we live in a culture that encourages warfare based on anything they can use to divide us also has to be considered.

However, I don't see a lot of those hot button issues here at DU like rape culture or marriage equality breaking across generational lines. They break along the same dismal lines they do in the larger and less enlightened culture. The only difference between young and old on these issues is vocabulary.