For an old man like me, âyoung personâ should be thought of as âsomeone I donât understand and canât 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.
- First, the imaginary Mr. A thinks that âthere are young people who âI can understand and tolerateâ and those who are âinexcusableâ and those who are ânot so inexcusableâ.
- Implicitly ignoring or downplaying the values of young people who donât 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 donât understand will leave them with old values.
- What bothered Nishio was that this discussion dichotomized the set of âyouthâ into âthose that can be understoodâ and âthose that cannot be understood.â
- In reality, understanding is a gradient
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