Goneril and Regan assure us he is no worse a fool than he has always been, right away, in the first act.
They cut him, betray him, and dishonor him and his because they can - he himself has enabled them - and it suits their greed and malice.
Regan to Lear: I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.
They plead in insolent, insulting, and false excuse that he is old and past it.
Lear replies irrelevantly to that charge, but pleads well for disrespected age.
Act II.
Reading King Lear.
PS
Kent is a thug and a bully.
What used to be called "a man's man."
Ours are not so very far from the dominant values of Shakespeare's age.
It's always a question of who calls the tune.
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