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It must always have been so, but the gap between the generations, especially between the quite young and the very old, is for me a constant sadness. There are all sorts of rational causes to do with it : education, family values, the immense effect of the media, social background ( how can us older people not be careful about money and waste when we grew up in the harsh years of war when everything was in short supply? ). The glamour of youth and the grunts of old age are a gulf it is very difficult to bridge. Culture