if i'd had more agency when I was younger,
I would have acted on some truly terrible decisions that I may never have recovered from
...which makes me suspicious of agency as the latest all-good panacea
Rudra Dakinix.comif i'd had more agency when I was younger, I would have acted on some truly terrible decisions that I may never have recovered from ...which makes me suspicious of agency as the latest all-good panacea
When you are 26 years old, it common to spend a lot of time pursuing what you want without spending much time considering why you want it. When I was 26, I wanted to be a successful YA novelist. I wanted it more than I wanted a long life, or happiness, or a family...
John Greenx.com
my orientation to the problem became fixed in time at that point of low agency, and it never occurred to me to revisit it as my capacity for action increased.
I think we are all like this. People are not just high-agency or low-agency in a global sense, across their entire lives. Instead, people are selectively agentic.
Let’s say that life is... See more
I think we are all like this. People are not just high-agency or low-agency in a global sense, across their entire lives. Instead, people are selectively agentic.
Let’s say that life is... See more