After a certain age, you become invisible.

[JosephStalin]

What age do you think it starts Joe?

Good question. Depending on the person, maybe the 50's to the 70's.

Not going to lie, a majority of the elderly people I've met are not repositories of wisdom and are woefully out of touch with how things have changed.

Ya, use the brain or lose it. Have used the brain as much as possible over the years. Those who haven't...

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Older people being invisible is one of the most interesting, though disturbing, things to think about when one also realizes that today‘s 40+ year olds will have to go through the same thing as they did.

There’s a reason why this:



Is turning into this at such dramatic rates:



People are just tired of being tired, and the more they want excitement and action, the more it starts to get wasted when people think that life has nothing left to offer for them.

 

[IKOL]

You don't see them as people, just nebulous shapes that go by.

Practically that's how I see literally everyone because these people bear no real significance to me likewise I have zero significance to them. So a fair deal.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

Yet many of these people have a great deal of knowledge and experience. They know things you don't know and can do things you cannot do. But they are invisible.

Yeah, but getting that knowledge out of them takes longer than googling it and on average with less accuracy.

 

[The Lawgiver]

The middle aged hispanic manlet squad I witnessed that I mentioned in another thread fully disproves this theory.

 

[Otterly]

You’re absolutely right. I’m a middle aged woman and I’m invisible. It’s not like I turned heads as a younger woman anyway but as a middle aged one I seem to be completely invisible. It’s quite strange but as you say, it gives you a degree of, let’s say, deniability in certain scenarios. People simply dont want to believe you could do certain things do they? That nice lady? Surely not.
I think it’s maybe harder for some women. I see the ones who were really beautiful and who have hit the wall somewhat find it hard to deal with. Enjoy your youth, young ‘uns.
Grey spies sounds fun. I thought about applying to Mi5 as a younger woman but I didn’t want to live in London and sort of assumed it was only posh boys who got the tap on the shoulder at certain university courses. I think I’d be a decent analyst, although anything James Bond type field work my dodgy hip would preclude.
Does anyone even love their country enoigh to be a spook? Or is loving your country something they don’t even want in spooks?

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I completely disagree. I'll actually greet old people and sometimes have conversations with them.

 

[Niggs Monaghan]

I've long since stopped caring about what normies do or think, because for the most part they don't. The majority have little effect on government, culture and movements. It's only the margins, the black swans that actually do anything or matter. I'm not saying this in any narcissistic way, and I'd rather be another NPC that doesn't have to notice these things. But seriously, most people look to a small group of influential people for answers of what they should think, how they should feel and what they should know. It's nothing new.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

What age do you think it starts Joe?

65

 

[lostkeys]

Old people are the only ones who strike up a conversation with me when I’m going for a walk or running errands. I’ve always loved old people though, I take comfort knowing they lived a life before me, experienced hardships and made it through. I’ve always befriended older coworkers, even a really bitter one, I think because I loved hearing their advice on things I never got growing up. I feel sad that so many of them must be lonely, but some of them I see them as aspirational. Old couples going for a walk, old ladies planting flowers in their yard and telling me about their grandkids, or old ladies in nice dresses and makeup— just to grocery shop. Or grandpas at checkout waving hello to my kid trying to get her to wave back, I hope to have a life like that when I’m old. I don’t know what it feels like to be invisible yet and it must suck to never have people older than you to give you advice on how to deal with it. The only solution would be a societal change, and if that ever happens, elders today won’t be alive to experience. But lots of us younger people have empathy for the elders but have too many problems of our own, maybe it’s always been that way, just not to this degree I reckon.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I find talking to old people quite interesting as they're the ones with all the experience. They're like the walking encyclopedias that will soon fade away into obscurity.

 

[Osmosis Jones]

Contrary to popular belief, old people are not full of wisdom, they are just very experienced bullshitters. Most people are bullshitters but the elderly are better at being convincing because they believe their own stories and I can't refute something I wasn't even alive to experience yet.

 

[whogoesthere]

Why is everyone acting like old people are some sort of monolith? some are great, some are cunts, same with any large group of people.

But in terms of older people being overlooked, this is true. You are no longer on the sex/dating market anymore with the bulk of people, only your own age. Not to mention, at your job, you are roughly at your limit because 60 year olds don't exactly seem like a sound investment for promoting up the chain.

I think invisibility terms kick in much older. I mean at that age a person likely has no one above them anymore, most of those on the same generation are also gone, and bits will be missing even from those 1 gen below you. Everything being so different as well, you sometimes can feel like you just have no one to connect to. Its why old people have their own social events, its to help them stay social.