Do people become wiser or more foolish as they grow older?

Axis: age brings wisdom ... people get stupider (less open, less silly) with age

Hank

date	change	position	video
2007-03-21	new	Hank seriously considers that people get stupider with age, avoiding fun and new experiences, against the view that age brings wisdom and youth is stupid.	March 20th: Dancing and the Idiocy of Age 00:01:42
2012-04-20	new	Hank says he would not go back to being younger because he now has a much deeper and more thoughtful understanding of the world; earlier he says silliness is not excluded by adulthood.	Thoughts on Growing up 00:02:06