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Yes, I think he misses the point entirely, to be honest.

AGE?

The YOUNG are the most easily swayed by error and the intellectual jackals. But there are exceptions to the rule.

and the OLD are not all of one mind, nor do they all agree.

Do they change? Do they adapt?

Can a person, living a lifetime of being open to new circumstances, and training themselves to see each moment as a unique situation, can they adapt? Certainly. This is the definition of adaptability… It actually takes practice, takes learned appreciation of the value of humility to recognize that one has been in error.

Do the young always "adapt"? Quite the contrary.

I see so many young people passionately take hold of an idea very strongly, often as early as in their teens, and they DO NOT CHANGE. Already, in their twenties, they already THINK THEY KNOW enough to pass judgement on everyone else, and they often are completely UNABLE see or admit how much they have been indoctrinated by their schooling, their opinions molded by those with an agenda to push into their minds, turning them into robotic foot soldiers fighting in ideological battles in wars they have no real connection to.

I think the default human condition is to form our opinions in conformity to those around us, defend our own opinions out of pride (we do not want to be perceived by others to have been fooled or seen to be 'stupid'), and out of self-interested self-defense, condemn those who do not agree with us as a consequence.

All too often, it is the school of hard knocks, learning by painful experience, that teaches us, kicking an screaming, to the realization that we must moderate our opinions, be open to new (or simply better) information and be continually willing to adjust our minds and lives to be in some level of harmony with it.

Not every person learns these lessons. Age is not a guarantee. But in many cases, it is a prerequisite.