In math, when you go from 3 to 4 dimensions, there is a sharp switch from visual geometric intuitions to symbol-rewriting intuitions, where your right brain gets trained on patterns in how the symbols move around rather than the underlying shapes
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You are doing what I call vanishing past your own event horizon. Or to use a more evocative everyday phrase, your solution to the problem is to become part of the problem. Congrats, you are now as obscure as the problem you were trying to investigate.
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I've been thinking about late styles/elder games/Act 2 for a year now, and all the supposed good news is feel-good fake news. If it looks like somebody is doing very interesting things past 40 or so, look again. It's always tricks with mirrors or harvesting stuff done before 40.
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In The Science of Discworld, the authors talk a lot about "lies to children" ie how popular understanding of science is layers upon layers of wilfully crafted misunderstandings to give people a false sense of comprehension. Our culture is equally full of "lies to the middle aged"
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US culture is particularly full of this shit. It annoys me. It gets in the way of actually having a generative, alive Act 2. It fetishes the affordances of youth. It blinds you to the affordances of maturity. It accumulates a debt of reality shock that hits you eventually.
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Yeah, this is far more true than anyone will let you admit. It's one of the deepest taboos in modernity to admit that aging is NOT a bed of roses or a graceful ascent to the peaks of wisdom and insight.pic.twitter.com/kHtDlvm7hc
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The first step to solving your problem, past 40, is to gracefully accept becoming part of the problem :D
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This is a 4th intellectual tradition to add to your 3 above: mysticism
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haha you accused me of gnostic psychobabble in my early 30s.
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