the 1960s, when I grew up, many young people couldn’t wait to push old people out of the way. For all the tolerance, peace, and love that our Woodstock generation espoused, we were quick to try to sideline our parents’ generation. We chanted, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty,” and we might as well have chanted, “Don’t even pay attention to anyone over seventy.” Roger Daltrey of the Who summed up a pervasive sense of derision toward the elderly when he sang, “I hope I die before I get old.”
