Kurt Vonnegut said that one of the scariest things that every happened to him was the day he looked around and realized people he’d gone to high school with were running the world.
Does anyone know?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
and by ‘it’, haha, well. let’s justr say. My peanits.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If true, then that which will happen to me will change.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s the neat part, you don’t.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Older than 60, I can confirm.
Just when you think you’re getting a grip, everything shifts.
Angelusz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Become the Kraken, see it all.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
This is the question to the ultimate answer. The answer being “42.”
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m 42 now but have yet to experience ultimate enlightenment.
Sparkles@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Roughly mid-thirties. Then the remorse sets in.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Incorrect. You don’t get there. EVER.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I really did start to feel like I had a better handle on things by mid 30s. Then it really sharpened in my early 40s. Not sure how clueless you might have still felt around then.
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reached mid-thirties, I’m still having no idea what the *** is going on, the longer I live, the less everything around me makes sense (and I don’t think it’s me that changes that much…).
Watching what’s going on in the US for instance, just results me in shaking my head in disbelief, without having any idea what’s going on…
Shellbeach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The goal is not knowing what’s going on, it is not caring about any of it
zanzo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Buddhism
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Such an appropriate post to find on my birthday.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Happy Birthday, internet stranger.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Thank you!
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You need to be dead years old.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
316th
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Me everything I watch a new movie/TV/anime.
“Wtf”, “What?”, “Nani?”
Also wtf is Tenet, does anyone even know? Or is Christopher Nolan just making a whole 2 hour movie to call his audience dumb? So fucking confusing, so much action, 0 plot.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Historically? Mid-20s when you enter the work force and start wondering why groceries are so expensive. And then you lose your mind and get angry that life was so much better when you were 10 and not paying attention to that.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Mid 20’s doesn’t know shit.
menas@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
life is absurd. So you did it, I guess …
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Ask yourself how rich, that’s the only wquestion that matters.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
We’re entering irrational times, ones that you can only navigate with your heart.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, shit, I’m terrible at matters of the heart.
zd9@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you invest a lot in to learning as much as possible when younger, then by like late 20s you can get a decent sense of things. But even then it’s a tiny percentage of everything.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
My friend mentioned to me that there are two types of cinnamon.
I happened to pass a spice stall at a local shopping center and started chatting about cinnamon. The guy behind the counter knew quite a bit, but pointed out that he wasn’t an expert.
The aren’t just millions of books you’ll never read, there are millions of books you will never haver any idea that they exist.
zd9@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, I think the point of the post is generally how to live in the world. Of course there are almost infinite obscure facts and skills, but I get your point.
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
YES.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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bss03@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
🎶 No one knows what they’re doing. 🎶
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
One more year should do it…
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think the question is how much money do I need to know what is going on?
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No fucking clue while being early 30s. When I was much younger, I thought my parents and adults around me knew much about the world. At my 30s I know one thing - world is fucked up and nothing can be in one’s control. All we have is to try to react properly to the world around us. Other than that, no idea what is happening and doubt anyone ever had an idea.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It is not about age, it is about listening, and not listening to only one thing/person, but listening to anybody, not intercepting the talk, just take it in and think about why that person is saying what they saying how, don’t blame them for saying something “illogical” in your view, try to find reason in it by asking clever questions that do not insult the other person.
If you manage to do so, you can understand why what is and how it is, by talking to enough people, age is irrelevant.Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
… finding out what’s going on or loving that long both sound like very risky propositions.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Usually when you get to that point in life … you either dead or almost dead
RockBottom@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Is this a question no-marxists ask themselves?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Take a lesson from Mao.
The true revolutionary hides himself among the masses. Only adventurists and posers boast of being Marxists.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Like marxists have a great grasp on reality themselves.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Trust me, you don’t wanna know what’s going on.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Come ooooon, tell us!!!
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
No, this is for your own good son.