From plastic surgery, up to and including the injection of toxic chemicals into our faces, to the Balkanization, if not outright exile of those over a certain age. The rendering of people, mostly women over 45 years of age to almost invisibility by the mass media.   It is plain to see that we as a whole are not dealing with the natural progress of aging well. This was not always the case. There was a time when those who had managed to survive a remarkably harsh world were regarded … [Read more...]