Old And Young

Looking back over the last year, one of the nicest things has been the emergence of an informal Spanish speaking group on a Wednesday evening at a local bar. There are usually a few English and a few Spanish, and one Catalan (he is definitely not Spanish!)
Unlike most groups in pubs and bars the people who come for a chat, this little group has a large age range, the youngest and the oldest of the regulars being fifty years or so apart.
From our schooldays onwards we are segregated in age bands, and this age segregation is re-inforced by the media. In times gone by it was normal for people to live, work and meet together. Only in advanced Patriarchy has this division, so natural in a world of bosses and servants, of social and economic grading, been introduced, keeping us segregated by our age.
Over the years I have very lucky that the nature of my work has kept me in touch with the very elderly and the very young, those with wealth and influence, and those with none, but I am aware that this is unusual.
It does us all good to get together as equals. Divide and rule is the aim of those in Power. Men and women, old and young, are not aliens to each other. The most revolutionary thing we can do, apart from opting out of the power structure as much as possible, is to get together as much as possible. There are no gradations in Paradise. We are all the children of Adam and Eve.