no matter how old I get I promise I will always fight back against old people needlessly shitting on young people for being young
when I was 17 older people said "when you get older you will understand", & at 29 I understand that older people (not all) are so often full of shit
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one way I know I'm getting old is that I forget when I've already said something before 😅
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When I was young, older folks would always say things like, “when you’re older, you’ll understand.” The most important thing I have come to understand - which I sensed as a kid, but couldn’t prove then - is that most people are full of shit
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grumpy old men complaining about how the world has done them wrong are extremely boring household tyrants
I knew this as a kid but wasn't allowed to say it because "what do you know, you're just a kid"
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Aside – I've actually been thinking a lot lately about how often people discuss and argue about things like politics, government, education systems, etc at dinner parties, over drinks and so on. Grumpy old Singaporean men do this _a lot_. Probably grumpy old men everywhere twitter.com/ComfortablySmu
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I think the real culprit here is high trait narcissism, and that the main causes of people's different samples are cultural and personal/familial.
That, and different social systems allow for different forms of tyranny & outlets for shitheadism.