Gulag 65 : a humanist looks at aging
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Gulag 65 : a humanist looks at aging
（American university studies, Series XI . Anthropology/sociology ; vol. 25）
P. Lang, c1989
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Gulag sixty five
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Bibliography: p. [193]-198
Includes index
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Description
Modern society, having evolved in the absence of a large cohort of the aged, has developed institutions inimical to their wellbeing. Their lives follow the Industrial-Christian model of work-sacrifice-reward. Their educations provide them with work skills but not the human resources to preserve their identity in retirement, even while retirement becomes an ideology. Gerontology presides over the gerontologization of America, wherein real wealth and security are replaced by symbols. The aged, challenging the values of society, thus become a class of subversives in an extermination camp.
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Contents: An analysis of how the underlying philosophical assumptions of modern society have produced an atmosphere dangerous to the survival of the aged and retired.
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