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by coldtea 1988 days ago
>I watch these types of videos and I can't help but wonder if we transcended the need for elderly advice or we just grown as a youth centric society.

I think we've combined "youth-centric" with "faux-young" (aka immaturity), where 40-year olds are "excited" about the latest superhero movie and 50 year olds act like teenagers...

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If you're unable to muster excitement for things you love purely because of your age, I'm genuinely sorry for you.
>If you're unable to muster excitement for things you love purely because of your age, I'm genuinely sorry for you.

That's putting the cart before the horse.

Rather you should love things that fit your age and cognitive and culture development. I'd loved ice cream for breakfast and sunday morning cartoons too at 8. I'd have an infantilism problem if I still loved them at 40.

If you still watch teletubbies at 40 and are excited desipite of your age, I'm genuinely sorry for you.

Slightly less so if you are genuinely excited about superheror movies, but still sorry.