net-life: "the pace on the treadmill has been turned up from cane-assisted to massively multiplayer intellectual marathon. The simple journey ... one of ascent & descent, has been disrupted. Only the end remains fixed. ... I don't know how old I am"
...aging-past-youth is not mainly an aesthetic issue in the United States or anywhere else...more midlife people are turning to anti-aging products [and plastic surgery] for financial reasons. They want to...pass as younger in the marketplaces of life.