Could aging set a tone for social revolution?

Agnes the ageing suit - FT.com: "Instead, he argues that every social and economic institution – from transport and housing to education and commerce – must be reinvented, especially if many millions more are to avoid the indignity and expense of a final trip to a nursing home."

Exciting to think that the despised notion of growing old and dying could create a social revolution that would serve all ages. But think again. There are some exceedingly dysfunctional aspects to the society we presently live in, not least ts loss of community, its reification of persons and its massive social and economic polarization.

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