@wizard honestly sometimes i feel like we might be the first generation whose brains aren’t already starting to calcify in our mid 30s
our ancestors built a society that blames present-day communication media for brainrot and giving kids ADHD
but i think we’re just much better adapted to interesting times where so much happens and changes every day. we can’t keep doing the same shit all the time because to us, such a narrowed existence is just miserable.
“i don’t want to try a different thing because this is the one i grew up with” is a mindset i’ve seen in most old people i know, and it’s fundamentally unrelatable. it’s like some mental illness to me, clinging to and endlessly reenacting the past because they cannot find joy in a world they no longer recognize. usually that’s something PTSD survivors tend to do.
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