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I agree. I changed my mind about a lot of things in my 30s. My views on politics, religion, and social issues all changed.
Same here, and pretty notably I keep getting more left wing instead of more conservative and the same's been happening to my friends too, so even the idea that you automatically get more conservative as you age is pretty suspect.
Shit, right now in Finland the under 25's are more conservative than Millennials, at least based on voting patterns
It's not age that makes you conservative, it's comfort and success. People on the older end of life tend to have advanced more in their career. In the current era, older people in America and Europe have been part of a period of relative success. People who are doing well in the current society don't want it to change. People who are struggling, do. The reason most monied interests support conservative agendas is that they are wealthy because they are suited to the current order. If they actually were to support real change, it'd cost them money.
I think that saying comes from an era when that's what happened to them.
That aside, it really depends on the person. Just because some people get a little more flexible in some ways doesn't mean that everyone becomes more flexible as they age. It's very likely that people can get more and more set in their ways as time goes by.