The human brain reaches adulthood about age sixteen or seventeen.
But the west has grown stupid.
Really really stupid.
All over the planet civilizations have acknowledged as they advanced that adulthood is not the pinnacle of development before decline sets in.
Call it elder, or whatever you like. Humans continue to gain in intellect and capacity for sound judgment for a while afterwards.
There people below twenty five are not children. They can be fully adults. Pretending they are not is stupid.
Really really stupid.
The kind of stupid which fully deserves to be mocked.
Audie Murphy certainly would have obliged. I’m no Audie Murphy but I will mock the stupidity which denies thousands of years af aggregate accumulation of human knowledge to deny that development continues after adulthood is reached.
Chronological age never equated to having brains or common sense. Work for 15 minutes in a hospital ER and you’ll see that. There is no shortage of people in this world of any age who aren’t too stupid to be idiots. In fact the older some people get the dumber they get.
https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/adult-brain
Until about age 25, emotion tends to rule. The ability to think and plan long term as opposed to “for the moment” is what seems to take until age 25 to develop. I actually saw it in myself as well as in my kids. Age 25 is when, if left on their own, people say, “What the heck am I doing with my life and, with no prodding, may start trade school on their own, etc.
I’ve seen it a lot.