Just realized something. The younger readers of my writing over the last 15 years haven’t generally grown up to be like the older readers of my writing. Where younger = 5-15y younger than me and older = 5-15y older. The two groups seem to have gotten different things out of it.
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I was 33 in 2007, so a 40-year-old reader would have been older and and a 25y old younger reader then then (now 40 and still “younger”), is a different kind of 40-year-old. Not just a generational thing. Different personality. If they found me now, they likely wouldn’t read me.
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Equally an older reader wouldn’t have read me if they’d been younger I think.
Theory: younger readers used my writing to make sense of the world, and their *possible* future place in it. Older readers used it to make sense of their *actual* past.
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Now of course the world makes no sense to anyone so nobody’s really reading anything contemporary (just vibing with headlines and ledes at best), and the earnest-beards are retvrning to classics and pretending furiously to have found answers there 🤔
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Unlikely. The lower bound stays constant so there’s always some precocious 19-20y olds finding my archives. Upper bound moves.
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