This Chair Rocks

This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite     Audio Book:  8 hrs, 45 min
Paperback Book:  320 pages     

Great book.   It really is spot on with the disrespect and disdain older members of our Western Society are subjected to.    Marketing favors the young and kicks older people to the curb or tries to.    The elderly are marginalized and pushed out of the mainstream.   It is a very real form of bias and prejudice like hating on the overweight,  hating people because of the color of their skin or because they are homeless.   So many forms of hate these days and all due to one group feeling superior to another.   Not fair, Not right.  And yet, it continues.    Ashton Applewhite pretty much went along with all the prejudicial talk until she became a senior citizen.    Then she began to pick up on all of the cues from the people surrounding her, society wants the elderly to sit down and get out of their way-the world is evolving into sectors  - the young who see no reason to keep the elderly people viable - just stick them away somewhere, medicate them or euthanize them with the cost of their medical bills it is draining what social security might be left.    The other side, the more Eastern philosophy on aging parents, grandparents, etc. is far more content to keep multi-generations alive and well and all living in one home.   Elders are people with lots of wisdom and experience though some younger members of society feel by elders continuing to work they are taking jobs away from young people who need them.   However, with science improving medical care and procedures all the time, people are tending to live longer and in order to live well many older members of society need to work to sustain themselves as not everyone is able to save nor to invest for their futures.   With the advent of viagra, etc. older people are living happier sexual lives well into their 80s with potential for 90s which is the new 60 for many physically fit and sound minded folk.   Disrespecting the elders of society is a form of bullying and certainly a hate crime like any similar acts carried out on gay, ethnic, followers of all religions, etc.    Elders are not burdens to society but contributors to it.   Ashton Applewhite is an Age Activist and is diligently working to bring about awareness of the treatment of and working to break the stereotypes associated with the older people on this planet.    She wants the world to practice AGE PRIDE and asks the readers of this book to do their part to educate the masses on the value of older people and not to deny their right to live well alongside every age.   I highly recommend this book to young and old.   Young people will never look at the elderly the same way agai

n nor will elderly who read this see themselves as anything other than vibrant and phenomenal.