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No longer have much hankering to travel unless it is in decently luxurious and convenient ways, even though I’ve only sampled maybe 40% of major world regions. Kinda wanderlusted out. Only place I’d be willing to put up with some inconvenience for is Antarctica. And space.
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That’s probably #1 in ways I’ve changed in last 10 years. Don’t with bith travel and nomadic living. If I could find a place and arrangement to settle siem, I would. Seems unlikely though.
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#2: Largely lost interest in cultural/intellectual traditions as things to be part of. Take easily discovered stuff that saves me time/effort but don’t bother situating anything I do in them unless necessary to make money.
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Happy being an unnecessarily inaccessible/not-worth-accessing non sequitur producer engaged in 90% mediocre reinventing of well-known wheels. It’s hard enough making sense of life. Deciphering breadcrumbs of those who came before and leaving my own is too much work.
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Autocorrect typo above: siem = down Will add more as I get a better sense of this developing Big Mood. Probably caused by liminal passage coming up in a few months: around April end, I’ll have spent as many years in the US as India (~22.75 in each, summing to 45.5)
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Another 22y and I’ll be 67, official age for collecting full social security, and 22 more brings me up to about 90, which is probably a good life expectancy planning number. So this is also a good halftime show point. 2Q left to go.
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I do wonder. How much of collective civilizational experience is not so much lost as never preserved in the first place, because the people experiencing them are checking out and not checking in their experiences or doing pull requests to civ repo so to speak.
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I don’t even mean people like me, who write in public and set up expectations that we’ll be logging it all into the commons. I mean private people with no public life, but who don’t even bother checking in their new code to friends/family.
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Interesting that so many people resist and fight aging so hard and so successfully (in many significant ways you can avoid aging if you try hard enough, even though physically you will decline and die) Aging is quite an interesting experience. I’m not all inclined to fight it.
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In the US there is practically a stigma against accepting aging without putting up a fight. Oddly it is seen as some sort of failure, which I never understood. Reminds me of old taboos against traveling abroad/across oceans as “sinful”
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