I really admire the way you describe your own state of mind and ideas. I would really like to have a long talk with you someday, just about anything really, well I don't know where to start. Maybe this is a good beginning, what do you think of youth. Do you believe in a perpetual adolescence?
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I hope you don't mind me answering your question anyway lol. The way most people talk about youth, I think it's safe to define it as the period of time when one is healthy enough (both physically and mentally) to enjoy life. The accelerating progress of science and increasing focus on welfare and equality of postmodern age means that youth is prolonged, factors such as age or disability matter less and less in the pursuit of happiness. Have you ever been to a leprosy asylum? There live the last true victims of the disease, those who contracted it just a couple of years before the cure was invented. They are severely disabled (both mentally and physically), their family and friends have long abandoned them. Many have lost more than one of their limbs and they spend all their time being tied up so they don't harm themselves, or scratch themselves to death. They have lived through their 20's, 30's, 40's and beyond, but do you think they have had any youth at all?
To end this with a positive note, I do believe in perpetual adolescence. I do not think my own parents have ever grown out of it.
I hope you don't mind me answering your question anyway lol. The way most people talk about youth, I think it's safe to define it as the period of time when one is healthy enough (both physically and mentally) to enjoy life. The accelerating progress of science and increasing focus on welfare and equality of postmodern age means that youth is prolonged, factors such as age or disability matter less and less in the pursuit of happiness. Have you ever been to a leprosy asylum? There live the last true victims of the disease, those who contracted it just a couple of years before the cure was invented. They are severely disabled (both mentally and physically), their family and friends have long abandoned them. Many have lost more than one of their limbs and they spend all their time being tied up so they don't harm themselves, or scratch themselves to death. They have lived through their 20's, 30's, 40's and beyond, but do you think they have had any youth at all?
To end this with a positive note, I do believe in perpetual adolescence. I do not think my own parents have ever grown out of it.