Reader: Age doesn't necessarily equal wisdom at Occupy Denver or anywhere else

Of course age does not imply wisdom.  Formerly, the mere fact that someone had attained old age was exceptional enough to merit respect; now, having briefly created the medical, social, and economic conditions in which many live to be old, the connotation of wisdom with age must weaken, but those few with the wit to take in what is around them and are of long experience should yet be counted wise.