We're not old. We're age advantaged. It's a priveledge thing, you whipper snapper.
I wonder how long it will be before we have so much audio/visual/tactile stimulation available to us that our kids will have to be taught how to imagine? I own a bunch of that crap, but I am thankful that I am age advantaged enough that as a child, I had to imagine some things AND that there were no drugs to help me not imagine or to work through problems.
A large population of the kids I work with as a CASA have diagnoses of bi-polar disorder, paranoia, depression, anxiety, etc. Of course their general life circumstances have a lot to do with it, bit I wonder if some of it isn't related to what is no longer worked out in the subconscious because of overstimulation?
Does anybody remember that Twighlite Zone where it took place in an OR and the whole show was in the dark until the last minute? It was about an operation on a supposedly really horribly disfigured woman and the Doctors were trying to make her look passibly human. My brother and I slept on the living room floor that night because we were too scared to go down to the basement where our room was. 