theres something odd about youth where sex is a primary focus of ones energies but somehow is also regarded with near total levity
young people hold their lives so casually. its remarkable in retrospect
young people hold their lives so casually. its remarkable in retrospect
the dissonance gets stronger when you observe that the young nevertheless somehow have the most strident theoretical opinions about sex! sex itself is JUST sex but god forbid you offer a view of it contrary to whatever dogma theyve alighted on
this is a more general phenomenon but its most striking wrt sex
maybe ageing is a sort of transition in viewing things as total lightness to endlessly weighty, something along the lines of kundera
some kind of far mode to near mode too, or maybe from episteme and doxa to gnosis
maybe ageing is a sort of transition in viewing things as total lightness to endlessly weighty, something along the lines of kundera
some kind of far mode to near mode too, or maybe from episteme and doxa to gnosis
i think a major issue is that when your young you dont see the downstream impact of everything your doing
you probably cant. even in retrospect, you dont have access to the counterfactuals
but ex ante you havent _felt_ the weight of what comes next
you probably cant. even in retrospect, you dont have access to the counterfactuals
but ex ante you havent _felt_ the weight of what comes next
https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1638771944144396289
a failure mode is to respond to this by doing nothing
by all means, gather your rosebuds
just understand that its likely to mean something to you someday
by all means, gather your rosebuds
just understand that its likely to mean something to you someday
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