It's even worse: sometime age will matter, sometime your physical appearance will. Sometime you may be young in mind and body, but if you're past 30 you'll be trashed. Sometime you may be wise and "lived" but if your body still looks like you're very young, you will be discarded as a countless teen.
Our society wants people to stay within the boundaries of predefined roles and shells. Young shallow teens which can easily be manipulated, a middle adult class to be fed to the job market in low positions, a senior class to be put in top positions, old people to kick in a corner waiting to die.
Escape such schemes, and you'll be rejected here and there as an unrecognized intruder. |