Like I said before, you're being completely black and white in regard to evolution. And it doesn't matter if it can't keep up with technology, in fact the whole approach is irrelevant. Technology is aided by the evolution of ethos. The evolution of technology works side by side the evolution of ideas. And the evolution of ideas does require fresh eyes.
I never said learning makes it harder to learn. And you're also wrong when you say older people are more likely to change than younger people. The opposite is true, as people age they typically become less willing to change. This is why young people are so important. Young people may not have the wisdom to be patient and consider all ideas before drawing conclusions, but being slow to draw conclusions does not necessarily make you open minded. For this, clean slates are still advantageous. They are absorbing information from their culture, yes, but they're doing it in a different, more contemporary way than the generation before them. They are developing their ethos or worldview. This is the gestalt of everything they believe in, and it's not simply the amount of knowledge they hold in their brains. It is the shape of their perception. You view the world from one particular position, but it's completely different from the position the generation before you views the world. This perspective continues to evolve, but it cannot change completely without a blank slate to reabsorb the new values and conditions of the more contemporary society.
Reteaching is as valuable as any other aspect of evolution. Transformation is as vital as preservation. Without transformation, we become stagnant. With stagnation, we become weak. And reteaching is not a waste of time or resources. It enables one to start over and fix old mistakes. For instance when playing an RPG, rather than get stuck with the same RPG over and over again after you already beat it, you can play it again and do better than you did previously because you have a chance to erase all your old mistakes. The same is done in teaching. There's no such thing as reteaching. That implies stagnation and pure repetition. There is only teaching. Everything continues to evolve each and every time.
Technology does not only aid in evolution but is aided by evolution and recycling, by the great transforming universe.
And there are two other points I'd like to bring up, one which I already brought up but you ignored. And this is procrastination. The fact that we die helps motivate us to seize the day. Without death, we have no reason to do anything now. It can all be put off until later. The fact that all structures are impermanent makes them valuable. If they never ended, they would have no value. In fact from a certain existentialist perspective they would cease to exist at all. Things only exist because they are in flux. We die, therefore we can know life.
And another point I'd like to bring up is life continues to be fun because we continue to start over. Maybe from a rigid atheist perspective you believe when you die, that's it, you're over, and maybe that's true. I'm not convinced of that, nor anything else. But even if my consciousness lives on, without my memories it's not really me, it loses my identity. And I'm fine with losing my identity. I like the idea of keeping life interesting by giving life-forms the chance to experience it for the first time, perhaps over and over again. In 50 millions years, if a life form has lived that long, life would become rather stale. Because we start new, life is truly a gift, and because we die, it is a gift we cannot take for granted.
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