Where does ageism begin? In the home? In the workplace? In the media?
Well, the simple and not entirely flippant answer is that ageism begins in all those places.
But its actual genesis is within the minds of each of us.
Hermetic philosophy puts it succinctly: “As within, so without.” Everything that we experience – everything – began as an idea and an idea is a thought.
So, what we think repeatedly – or worse, what we’re taught to think – we experience or encounter in our physical, everyday lives.
Such as ageism.
Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging, is Ashton Applewhite who has been called America’s activist against ageism by such noteworthy organizations as The New York Times, New Yorker, and the American Society on Aging. She has been fighting the ageist fight since 2005 through her book, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and her blog of the same name. She holds public lectures and hosts Ted Talks.
In short, she uses every available weapon in her war against the limiting beliefs around being older.
A Final Note: Around the 27th of December, I came down with a late Christmas gift in the form of a chest cold which resulted in me “sounding like Tron”, as my partner, Dave Grein told me. I thought I was more like James Earl Jones… Apologies in advance!
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