AndyP

Contemplatively Confounding Conundrums...

1. Is the exponential exacerbation of suicidal or maniacally depressive dispositions, predilections, and/or cogitations amidst the elderly instigated by a crushing, eviscerating sense of ennui, or merely a most misbegotten melancholia due to their marginalization, personally and professionally?

2. Are the elderly more disposed towards philosophical, ideological, and epistemological writings than they initially were?

3. What ideals are cherished, lauded, or panegyrized more by the paradigm of elderly denizens?

4. Are the subliminally sustained stereotypes of the elderly, from the crabby, contemptible curmudgeon, a la the miserly Mister Potter, to the jocund, genteel jackanape with an affinity for frivolity, akin to the venerable Grandpa Vanderhof (both of whom were limned by the luminous Lionel Barrymore), and all those 'twixt, an accurate depiction of those within said categorization?

5. How does the disposition towards the delineation of age and caducity differ amongst various cultures, i.e. are elders met with exaltation or excoriation by certain societies?

6. What actual ages are anathematized as that harrowing, sepulchral, and portentous promulgation of the categorization by most?

7. How copiously, piteously, or rapaciously self-rationalized are the auguries of age by those at its precipice?

8. Why is quintessential, biological, and sempiternal senescence stigmatized as insulting or discourteous when alluded to when we are all, albeit at disparate rates of acceleration, liable to it?

Beholders (Tentative)...

The elder teachers, and such pedagogical panjandrums, whose retirement is impending.