How come some people get more ignorant with age?
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Shouldn't we get more open minded and accept eachother more?
Why I ask is because I see a tendency around the world with hatred.... mostly among the elderly.
Is it because they wanna hang on to what they once knew, being afraid of might come?

Its because at one time they were a ripe grape.. now they are a raisin.. and they don't like to be a raisin.. so now they are pissed off

hahaha... You might be right there...

🤦‍♀️what he said...people suck and not in the good way...be like me just adopt dogs lol

I don't think that dogs will make a good wine...

From what I have experienced, most people stop growing at a certain point in their lives. It's as if they have said, "That's it for me! No more new stuff!" That phenomenon would be unpleasant in and of itself, but the additional factor is that, if one is not growing, one REVERTS! So, many of the outdated bad habits that you shed in your twenties will rear their ugly little heads once more, if you are not constantly fighting to make it better. Most of the "-isms" we outgrow, but if we're not careful....

I'm a middle aged grandmother and started a new job today. So, I believe people keep growing. It's just we've learned the hard way about a lot of things. We are quicker to put toxic people out of our lives. So I guess you are right about being less excepting.

We kinda do.
You might want to look up fluid vs. crystallized intelligence.
We learn. But we also have learned.


Possibly because people have to determine if how they have been doing something will work "good enough" vs. having to learn something new and put forth the energy and effort to make it the new old way of doing things.

It's "easier" to rely on what you "have learned" than trying to figure out what you might maybe need to learn among the possible things that you could learn but don't know whether you should or not or what's relevant to learn yet.


I think that would be scary.
It would mean people would throw out everything they already learned to do as they got older simply for the sake of doing something new, with no guarantee the new way would work.


As an extreme, no. That would be scary. (just as scary as pure homogeneity)
There is no security or safety in a lack of consistency.
"Uh oh, those blades of grass over there moved again. Now, my experience has been that it's always been the wind...but I need to be more open minded to change and something new. Expect something new and changing...Maybe it's a gorilla. Maybe it's a shark. Maybe it's a gorillashark hybrid, cuz I saw a Jurassic Movie where they combined frogs and dinosaurs, I need to be open minded to the possibility. I better go buy a gun, I've never done that before, and I should expect something new, because that could mean danger, and I need to prepare for constant new things. I'll try shooting into the grass at random intervals, something new, to placate my danger sense due to new information...maybe I should get some explosives, because maybe a gun won't work."

Or "Oh look, there's some fellows all wearing the same colors and masks holding guns coming at me. Hmmm, I want to be open minded and accepting. I'm gonna sit here and talk to them when they come up."


Other than that, "we" kinda do. People tend to be open minded and accepting of things that don't affect them and they don't experience.
Open minded and accepting doesn't mean not having an opinion.
It only really matters what people do about something.
Sitting on the internet complaining and telling other people what they should do is not being closed minded and unaccepting.

And other than that, it kinda depends on tolerance levels.
There's a huge difference between being uncomfortable about the openly trans pierced ink multicolored hair barista at the coffee shop you've gone to for the last 20 years and will continue to go to, and saying "you know, that guys raping my wife...I don't want to tell him what to do, and maybe that's his culture. Plus I want to respect my wife as an equal and capable of taking care of herself. So I'm not going to stop him and risk communicating to my wife that she needs some man to protect or save her. She said she's no princess and didn't need a man on her profile when I saw her on that dating site..."


Human beings inherently seek equilibrium and consistency, homeostasis.
They want a guaranteed source of food, water, shelter, sex, social position/group security for the least required amount of effort (cost) while seeking immortality (kids/longevity).

People form routines and habits and rituals they perform on a daily basis. This also helps shape self image, who they think they are, and who society sees them as.
Any change in that changes who they are, and their value to society.

Change is only pursued to either achieve a benefit, and/or reduce a cost/stress.

Every human pursuit from the intellectual to the emotional is for the sake of creating shortcuts in order to reduce future thinking. (brain effort, expending energy).
Compartmentalization.

People call it "growth" because they're morons. They're just looking for the next thing they can take for granted in order to develop a picture of the status quo so they can expend less energy/effort and feel safe and secure in the reality they've created for themselves.

i think that the mistake you made in the title of your thread ought to tell you everything that you need to know!

Id say the lazy thinking I posted about in a different thread. The mind would rather not work too hard so it works off of patterns and repetition and what it knows. New information, especially when it contradicts or challenges long held knowledge, is not as easily accepted by the brain.'

So I think some people become more ignorant because they stop having experiences outside of what they have always known and/or they stop attempting to build knowledge through reading or observing what is outside of their habits and patterns.


Those things mix particularly poorly with the ever promoted egocentric culture where everyone is encouraged to see the world revolving around only them, so its in the interest of ego to believe the ignorance that places their status (in their own minds at least) above the status of others...

Many people get set in their ways.

Why doesn't we all learn with age?

cause ya cant fix stupid

Because some mature faster than others and some never mature at all.

I got nothing , but Yabba Dabba Doo.

my thoughts exactly tom

Thats because we have different lives.. different experiences.. different thingking.. different culture and environment. Everybody is different . Not all grow old with wisdom. Some gets old stupid. Some has lots of wisdom even at young age. So u cant really generalize wisdom ,knowledge or thoughts of each individuals.

Because stupidity has nothing to do with age.

People DO learn with age and get wiser. But because of age and having lived longer they've also gone through more bad things than younger people, so they've gotten hurt more often.
Some then begin to live in fear, doubt, insecurity and so on more and more, afraid to get hurt again. Not just in matters of the heart, also other things like maybe losing a job, not seeing their dreams come true etc.

You also mustn't forget that negative people scream louder than their positive counterparts. Wise people only speak when spoken to or asked. Negative people yap all the time so you come across it more.
Doesn't mean to say that people in general don't become wiser or that they all become negative when they age.

Why doesn't we all learn with age? obviously not spelling or grammar!

.... weel, yup...