Młodość a wartość starości
Youth and the value of old age

Summary/Abstract: The consumerist civilisation propagates the cult of youth. On the opposite pole there is a depreciation of old age. This disturbs the natural harmony between the four "seasons of human life": childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age and, moreover, devaluates the role of life experience which is acquired later in life. The article aims at providing arguments for the sake of the thesis that both young and old people need one another. Since old age has a particular value which is the wisdom resulting from personal experience and from the distance towards transitory fascinations, fashions, trends and thinking styles.

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