{Doubling Life Cycles [continued (3)]}[5th January 1989]

[Redbook6:84)][19890105:1022f]{Doubling Life Cycles [continued (3)]}[5th January 1989]

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Here is another* possible resolution:

	Psychological Natural Potential Cycle (Clutch?!)	Accelerator: Unintended effects of medical & behavioural stress (e.g ‘growing up fast’)	Brake: Deliberate effects of cultural patterns (eg ‘overgrown schoolboys’)
	0	0	0
Baby	1	1 (Death peak)	1
Toddler?	2	2	2
	4	4	4	(/→5 in UK schooling)
End of infancy	8	8	8	(→11/13 in UK schooling)
End of childhood	16	c.12+? (Psychologically)	16→21/22+	(Delayed by formal education)
**End of youth	32	Mid 20’s?***	35 – 40+?	(Delayed ‘mid-life’ crisis – personal unwillingness to acknowledge?)
End of work?span	64	(Stroke &) c.50s? Early Retirement?)	?(60-)70+ /****	(Accelerated/Delayed end of work) (but may continue!)
Theoretical max spans	128	c.72+ Present Average Western# (if surviving infancy)		(Accelerated death)

The cruel pattern is that by delaying the major crisis points culturally in the face of a still-accelerated [sic] average life-span, we continue to squeeze the second half of the potential or super- span out of existence. #* About all that can be said in our favour is that in mediaeval times, most people seem to have missed the second half of the work span as well (or at least a good part of it).

What I like about this triple sequence is that it explains both the perceived natural psychological transformation ages – e.g. 8, 16, 32, 64 – and the perceived induced crisis ages – e.g 11, c.21, c.40, (& death): 70 being also the accelerated death.

*[[See last 2 previous entries, [Redbook6:82)][19890105:1022d]{Doubling Life Cycles}[5th January 1989] &f]]

**(1983) [Presumably this refers to the year in which the writer reached 32]

***[At the time of writing this note (2019) it has been reported/suggested that the brain does not cease the physical changes leading from childhood to adulthood until the age of c25]

****[The ‘/’ in the ts represents an arrow in the ms pointing from the ‘?’ above it to the ‘c.72+’ in the next row, previous column.]

#(Per E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] VII, ‘Lifespan’[:]

‘… The average lifespan [of Humans] is only about 70 years, compared with 30 years in the 1700s.’

#*Note that in these patterns subsequent occurrences of a lesser cycle are generally less significant.

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