There’s soo much magic in youth
it discourages a certain form of dilettantism—peering into an adjacent field that you don’t have the “right” background for, using techniques you aren’t “qualified” to be doing, introducing references and sources that are nontraditional and even looked down upon in your primary field. Research as a leisure activity isn’t constrained by these
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Actually, fuck answers, the more I think about it. The best questions don’t have answers. The point of the question isn’t to find an answer. The best questions are organizing principles, magnets, ways of seeing.
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
if i'm honest with myself
I think a lot of kids are in that situation where you know ultimately they're just not being given the codes.
They have, they have unlimited curiosity, but really are not being given the codes.
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
I think I probably philosophically disagree with the statement that we've destroyed Earth. But this is about the mirror; this is about thinking larger and creating images that will solve these things as byproducts. If you fundamentally disagree with that perception, then there’s kind of like nowhere to go, right conversationally between us. But if
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“Why are we in all these conflicts? Because the images y'all make suck. That's the youth culture answer for you. The images y'all make suck. Marge is a better image, and it's gonna solve these things in a far more interesting way.'“
Reggie James
“I contain multitudes” (said the youngblood)
Incidentally, teens and twenty-somethings, more so than the middle-aged and elderly, tend to juggle more identities. In middle and high school, kids have to maintain an identity among classmates at school, then another identity at home with family. Twenty-somethings craft one identity among coworkers
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There’s soo much magic in youth
Children believe in magic. Let’s keep that belief alive