>>23021080It's less about rejection of the zeitgeist and clinging to older ones, but rather "As the world gets stranger, so do you."
It's a message of somber hope. Somber because of the acceptance of the entropic nature of a rapidly changing zeitgeist; hopeful because despite this acceptance one can adapt and survive, if they are willing to be as strange as their environment.
This doesn't mean that the world you grew up in was better, and the newer one is bad; far from it; it is just noting the differences of how much change there was in it. Some good, some bad, but change regardless that has completely become alien to the world you grew up in, and likewise, has made you alien likewise in your adaptation of it.
If you remain the same person, and not adapting, not becoming as alien as your surroundings, then I'm both envious and full of pity for you. Because you're able to be the same person you are, without changing or growing, in a little self contained box that isn't influenced by an ever encroaching world that is dynamically shifting. However, I have pity for you in that, because you haven't changed in that, that years can go by, and nothing changes on your end, that you can't or won't adapt to a whole that is strange or alien to you. When you don't adapt, you become specialized, and when you become specialized, what happens when the alien world around does or cannot support your speciality, especially if you cannot or will not adapt?
Will you go the way of the Dodo? Will Darwin point at you and say "And there you have it?"
I'd much rather stare in the mirror and ponder the feathers, scales, longer beak, gills that I've had to grow in short bursts, rather than say "I'm in my lane, flourishing, hydrated, unchanging"
If you haven't changed, please keep on doing so; so that I may have something to be envious in this continued journey of Life, someone I can look at and say "Why couldn't I have been like them?"
