Conversation

25-35 is a sort of ideological adolescence where your system is awash in political hormones and you’re blind to people as people and see them primarily as symbols. What breaks you out is embracing your mediocre side directly. All ideology is mediocrity denial.
2
124
People who succeed at life in ways they can plausibly narrativize in ideological terms get arrested development for life at that stage. It’s a blessing of sorts to succeed in ways that you can’t easily attribute to any one thing.