A video is circulating on social networks of a person who enthusiastically asks Ecuadorians to support the efforts of the government of President Daniel Noboa because the new president is a young leader who has chosen young people and civilians for the most important positions. cabinet of ministers. He says that, of course, some of them do not have experience, but, on the other hand, they have a different vision, so he praises the freshness of these new elected officials, because others have failed before. He advocates a change in politics that starts with new faces, not the same old ones.

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This comparison between the abilities of the young and the old spans almost all of human history. Immediately before the assassination of Julius Caesar, on March 44 BC. C., Marcus Tullius Cicero concluded a short treatise on old age entitled De senectute. In the ancient Greek world, if someone reached adulthood, they had a good chance of living seventy years or more. Cicero saw aging as an art and thus there are contemporary editions that translate his treatise The Art of Aging. In this work, Cato starts from the idea that those who claim that old people are useless do not know what they are talking about.

Not all young ones are flowery and not all old ones are withered. There are young fools and old fools, especially in politics.

And remember that Rome’s main institution, the Senate, is so called because it admits older men. And among the Spartans, judges of high rank were called elders. “If you study the history of foreign nations, you will learn that the young destroy the most excellent countries, and the old save and restore them.” And he quotes the comedy of Nevius, one of the first Roman dramatists: “Tell me, how could they lose their nation so quickly?” The answer is: “Listening to novice, stupid and young politicians.” And Cicero concludes: “You see that imprudence is typical of a flowering age, and wisdom of a withered one.”

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When the sailing ship Pharaon docks in the port of Marseille, a 19-year-old young man, although well-versed in matters of the sea, informs the shipowner of the last events that occurred on the voyage, which ended in the death of the old captain, whom Edmond Dantès had to take command of until the end of the planned voyage . The ship owner, faced with this sad news, exclaims: “We are all mortal and it is necessary for the old to give way to the young, otherwise there would be no progress.” This is one of the first scenes of The Count of Monte Cristo, a novel by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870).

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So we continue to weigh the virtues of youth against the virtues of age. But in reality, have we older people stopped to think about what, when we were young, we firmly believed we knew? Don’t we feel like we dominate the world and do we know everything about the social revolution, about the relationship between men and women, do we know everything about life? How do we now see how young we were and what happened to those strong beliefs from before? Not all young ones are flowery and not all old ones are withered. There are young fools and old fools, especially in politics. What will happen to today’s youth after thirty years? (OR)