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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4@raphus.social
    Aug 5, 2026, 4:16 PM

    @junklight @artemis Yes, exactly! There are plenty of older people who frustrate me, but it's because with their level of experience, uselessness* becomes more and more a choice. Even the boomers - that's a nickname chosen based on how many of them there were, and for all the stereotypes, a crowd that big has tons of wonderful, compassionate, clever people in it, who see through the jackbooted nonsense of far-right ideology.

    *a highly loaded word in a world where, no matter your age, usefulness is often only considered narrowly in terms of whether a rich person can use you to get richer.

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  • Matildajunklight@mastodon.art
    Aug 5, 2026, 4:19 PM

    @MaddieM4 @artemis certainly for me one thing I think is important is still learning! Lots of people my ago seem to have decided (often some time ago) that they now know everything

    Mind you one problem with continuous learning is I’m way more aware of how little I know compared to how much I thought I knew when younger ;-)

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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4@raphus.social
    Aug 5, 2026, 4:22 PM

    @junklight @artemis god, so true. There's also this use-it-or-lose-it aspect. Like, imagine if you did somehow know all you needed to know forever. Do you want to retain that information? Do you want to keep being able to apply it even as the world changes? Learning keeps you sharp! Learning is retention!

    And frankly, when you do it on your own terms, learning just feels good. I can't imagine wanting to stop learning at any age. It would be a violation of my identity and a far less interesting life.

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