alt Hacker NewsAs a young person, I can at least anecdotally say the same thing is happening to people who, while older, ain't old yet.
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HedonicEscal8r • today at 5:07 PM
As a young person, I have no idea what you guys are talking about, and recommend not overgeneralizing from anecdotes.
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>>We get wise too late...
>>...and old too soon.
>>–Danish Proverb
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At early-forties, I don't think I count as "young" anymore.
Definitely: growing up without a cell phone was beautiful. I still remember driving around semi-lost, using paper maps, quite fondly (I still print directions).
My last partner (eight years my junior) "grew up on her cellphone" and it was just remarkable how fucked her brain was... at least different from my own landlined-childhood POV (e.g: attention-span; need for constant contact).
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And yet, my brain also enmushifies (lately: increasingly).