Wisdom peaks around age 39. Past that we just pretend that memories older than the youngest adult generation count as wisdom. "Wise" ideas are either actually wise, or 21+ years old.
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Nobody seems to have noticed this because of 2 reasons: a) median lifespan once used to be ~40, and 40 was also the typical age of becoming a grandparent b) self-congratulatory gerontocracy
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Median lifespan based on high infant mortality is a pretty sketchy basis for reasoning.
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shh don't contaminate my profound wisdom with facts
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