i’m still thinking about this thread, i think there’s something really important here although i’m not sure if i can articulate it
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Modern man has had too many experiences.
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i’ve been skimming the wikipedia articles of the people who created e.g. conan the barbarian or whatever - often how it goes is that they just didn’t know about very many things growing up, then they heard about one cool thing, then they made that thing their thing
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and i just can’t imagine having a life arc like that in the age of the internet. i have heard about too many things, orders of magnitude more things than any pre-internet human could possibly have heard of. they are all bouncing around in me, unsorted, unprioritized
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i’ve watched thousands of hours of TV, played thousands of hours of video games, surfed thousands of hours of internet, and i think a shockingly large amount of that stuff is still in there and god knows what it’s been doing
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i think the way it’s supposed to go is my experiences were supposed to add up to a cohesive picture of the world and my place in it but instead i feel like i grew up as shards of personhood for disconnected worlds - school, home, friends, internet - that never came together
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i often wish i had been a theater kid growing up because among other things i think i would have taken very naturally to acting. in retrospect i already felt like i was acting all the time, and at least in theater i would’ve known what my character was supposed to be doing
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that is so wholesome and precious 🥲 maybe it's not too late for us man idk!!!
