Summary: KMO welcomes Ashton Applewhite to the C-Realm to examine cultural attitudes about aging and the elderly. Cultural stereotypes about the elderly abound, and some of the most pernicious claims Applewhite, are that they are greedy and leech resources from the young, that they are a burden on the healthcare system, that they are sexless, that they have lost their cognitive faculties and that they are uniformly conservative in their social orientation and in their politics. Ashton thinks that the life extension movement and its advocates, people like Aubrey de Gray and Ray Kurzweil are pushing a deluded and elitist agenda that would divert resources from more deserving uses. Music by Southside.
