On Growing Up and the Problems with Childhood Nostalgia

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@theodorerobertscoffieldkoz9329 9 күн бұрын

In my case, I think my core aesthetic tastes have in most part stayed the same, but they have evolved as I have learned more and more. The age of 10-16 were when the majority of my aesthetic and philosophical views formed. At my 10th birthday I only had an autodidactic knowledge of prehistory and astrophysics (autodidactic for a 10 year old that is), but I knew almost nothing about history, philosophy, or politics, and I was functionally illiterate. As I progressed through my middle school aged years (they only have elementary and high school were I live) I started to get into history, maps, and elementary philosophy. I also developed a taste for horror around this time. As matured I started to realise that the things I liked in some regards were not as good as I had previously thought, the things that would frighten me to the point at which they would leave me unable to point at witch I could not move at the age of 10, seemed comical to me at 13. When I was 14-15 I started to find out about different ideologies and how they evolved over time. This led me to the Dark Enlightenment and other dangerous ideas, and Accelerationism (with a capital A) as a result. Consequently, I started to find out about higher and more obscure philosophical Ideas. In the last few years, my views on those things have remained relatively unchanged, I am assuming this is mostly because humans as individuals gain knowledge linearly, so stronger changes in how we view the word happen less frequently, similar to how time seems to pass faster as we get older, also I have understood some of the weirdest ideas out there, so new things I learn can relate back to other things, and they seem to not be as shocking.

@AbstractEntityJ 7 күн бұрын

I was a libertarian at 15. Needless to say, my views have changed a lot.

@theodorerobertscoffieldkoz9329 7 күн бұрын

@ In what sense would you describe yourself as ‘Libertarian’ at that age?

@AbstractEntityJ 7 күн бұрын

@@theodorerobertscoffieldkoz9329 In nearly every sense. I was all about minimal government.

@theodorerobertscoffieldkoz9329 6 күн бұрын

@@AbstractEntityJ do you remember how the online atheist community evolved into the anti SJW movement in the early-mid 2010s?

@AbstractEntityJ 6 күн бұрын

@@theodorerobertscoffieldkoz9329 Sort of. A lot of atheists are SJWs themselves though. I remember elevatorgate and how Dawkins was dragged through the mud over literally nothing.