More Ignorant as you Grow Older?

 

‘The ignorant become more foolish as they grow older.’ (Shabbos 152a)

Ignorance has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with choice.

There is a inherent comfort Wisdom brings responsibility.

The longer a person makes a choice of ignorance, the more comfortable they become with it and the more reason he finds to justify it.

His foolishness becomes more entrenched and intractable.