Mid-Life Crisis
2023-05-04 16:29:05 UTC
Middle age is:
- The realization that the world runs perfectly fine without you.
- The discovery that a younger generation defines itself as the opposite of their older generation. That is, they will do whatever it is the previous generation didn't do.
- Learning that ultimately, nomocracy is a lie. Those with power inevitably get their way.
- Your sense of time speeding up. One year at middle-age feels the way three months felt when you were a child.
- Learning that outside of personal relationships, nothing but the market cares if you live or die.
- Coming to terms with the fact that perceptions mean more to people than performance.
- Being pushed out of your own ideologies as new ideologies consume and replace them.
- Relearning what certain words mean as their meanings change seemingly arbitrarily.
- Understanding that people are largely driven by comfort.