On Being Irrelevant
VISIT: MARK KNOWS IT ALL: THE WEBSITE At what age do we become irrelevant? My conclusion is the older we get, the earlier that age becomes, and it is disheartening. When I was young, I was taught to treat folks who are older than me with a degree of respect. I still do to this day. Even though I am 58 years old, I still refer to people whom I have known since I was small as Mr. or Mrs. Whoever, simply because their age carries with it something of merit. They grew up in difficult times. Now the Baby Boomers, the largest and wealthiest segment of the population, are on the downhill side of middle age. By definition, we are aged between 50 and 65. But rather than enjoying any kind of respect, the digital age quickly moved us into the age of irrelevance vis-a-vis a younger group of people who not only have no regard for us, but have no regard for each other. Such are the egocentric twenty year olds, who have redefined the word "entitlement." These are the people raised on comput