It seems as if, when we’re young, the solution to all of our problems is just getting older—when will people take me seriously? when will I understand my own body? when will I gain the confidence to assert my own will? or, just be myself? Then, as we age, it paradoxically occurs to us that the only solution to our problems is to be young again: if I only knew then what I know now, if I only had a chance to do that thing over, if I only could move like when I was young, if I only had my whole future ahead of me ….

This week, we’re talking about the phenomenology, the physicality, and the psychology of growing old(er). 

In this episode, we discuss the following thinkers/ideas/texts/etc.:

• Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction (2024)
• Columbo (TV series, 1971-2003)
• Kimberly Akimbo (Musical, 2021)
• Plato, Republic
• America is getting older, according to the US Census
• Simon Critchley, “Being and Time, Part 6: Death” (on Heidegger‘s being-toward-death)
• Martin Hagglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (2020)
• Aikido
• Grace and Frankie (Netflix series, 2015-2022)
• Death with Dignity movement
• The Last of Us (HBOMax series, 2023)
• Still Alice (Film, 2014)
• Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy 

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