What we talk about when we talk about aging

A few months ago, a photo of a dress went viral because people saw different things when they looked at it. Was it blue with black stripes, or white with gold stripes? Others disputed whether it mattered and wondered about human divisions and trivial obsessions. The other day, over six weeks after “Dressgate” and less than an hour after I finished the FrameWorks Institute’s “Gauging Aging” report, a grocery store clerk referenced the dress as evidence that “people need to get a life.”

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Ironic...