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by jjkaczor
2002 days ago
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Exactly, it is kind of like Clarke's first law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws Youth are always writing off the oldies - I did it, and now that I am old, I see it happening to me - and that is ok - we need that passion to shake things up, even if they end-up eerily similar to the way things were done before... |
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However if I can't understand their perspective, I have a very hard time in understanding and judging their reasonableness (because I'm basing my judgement solely off of my own experiences and memories that are similar to their circumstances).
This lack of understanding translates to seeing a lack of credibility in them. "Maybe if they were more like me, they'd make more sense, be more reasonable". This type of thinking is common in most types of prejudice.
It's why young people write off older people: "They're too older to remember what it's like being my age, or to understand how things are now".
Why the opposite occurs: "They're still too young to understand how life works yet".
Why people of very different cultures tend to be prejudiced: "Their kind are ignorant of how the world works", and the opposite: "They've never been through what I've been through, they don't understand me or mine".
All of these statements evaluate down to: "If they were more like me, they would be reasonable". Which is of course true, if "they" were more like "you", their systems of reasoning and value be more similar to yours, and vice versa.