Humanities

Humanities

What is the human life cycle and how does this affect our political culture (individually and collectively)?

Levinson argues that the life cycle comprises a sequence of four eras, each lasting for approximately twenty-five years.  He also identifies a number of developmental periods within these eras, concentrating on early and middle adulthood.  The eras and main developmental periods he identifies are as follows:

1.   Childhood and adolescence: birth to age-twenty (early childhood transition by age three)

2.   Early adulthood: age seventeen to forty-five, Early adult transition-seventeen to twenty-two, Entering the adult world-twenty-two to twenty-eight, Age thirty transition-twenty-eight to thirty-three, Settling down-thirty-three to forty

3.   Middle adulthood: age forty to sixty-five , Midlife transition-forty to forty-five, Entering middle adulthood-forty-five to fifty, Age fifty transition-fifty to fifty-five, Culmination of middle adulthood-fifty-five to sixty

4.    Late adulthood: age sixty on, Late adult transition-sixty to sixty-five.

Political and life cycle strongly affect behavior for the outstandingly obvious reason that they are behavior. One's life cycle is a collection of behaviors and habits that one perpetuates. One's political is the setting in which one enacts those behaviors and habits which make up one's life cycle and, due to the nature of setting, political will, of necessity, effect one's life cycle and, by connection, behavior. I'm not sure why someone would want to divide life cycle and behavior, they seem quite the same to me. If one robs banks, one is a bank robber. Likely, the said bank robber lives a life of crime or, as we might say, a life exemplified by criminal acts, which immerses one in a criminal political, and produces a criminal life cycle. Behavior and life cycle are much the same. If one commits crimes, one is exhibiting criminal behavior, and living a criminal life cycle.

Gender, culture and political convenience

On top of all this are questions anyway about whether ...