been thinking about what it means to be stuck in the past, and how being stuck in different pasts makes the world feel different age feels much more important to me for understanding people than it used to, because it determines what era of history you came of age in
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the real hogwarts houses are boomer, gen x, millennial, and zoomer
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also trying to synchronize ancestral trauma to history. e.g. if you're 30ish millennial like me, your parents are 50-60ish gen x, came of age in '70s-'80s. your grandparents are 70-90ish boomers / silent gen, came of age '40s-'60s, irreparably marked by WWII
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
i recently watched a film (Romero https://www.romerofilm.org/ ) set in the prelude to the Salvadoran civil war one of the main characters (Rutilio Grande) is a family member, and SEEING what we lived through has affected me in a deep and unusual way
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wow. what a story to be connected to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutilio_Grande …
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