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I just enjoy doing fun things and enjoying life so ill never grow up. I'll be playing video games, playing music, and breaking rc cars when im 90.
Still enjoy cartoons too. I guess I really had no siblings growing up so I like to entertain myself. Why do people get old and boring? Never understood it myself. Get old, not boring.
Growing old is compulsory; growing up is optional. My ~~boomer parent besties~~ (Edit to clarify: the best friends of my lame-ass boomer parents) taught me that. They were awesome, hard-partying, and so full of life. They would take me for long weekends and vacations with them, doing fun shit including breaking his RC cars doing ill-advised shit. He was an EE for Phillips NA and she was an EE for IBM. We stayed in close touch until they died.
If my own parents are what adulthood looks like, nah, I'm good, thanks.
Like it's been a choice whether to grow up or not.
Pretty funny that the article and the reply both implicitly assume adulthood is owning things or doing certain activities. Adulthood is being able to navigate life through adversity. Every young person I know treading water with unstable income and no support is way more 'grown up' than boomers complaining about having to cut back on retirement cruises.
And anyone with the potential for a future, destroyed it all as soon as they became an adult by taking on a mountain of student loan debt, only to be told that the career they paid a fortune for is being largely replaced by AI.
Here's a link to the article: https://archive.ph/oM5UV
I don't take issue with any of the points presented, but the tone and content fall short. As one from the Oregon-Trail generation, I fit the profile, and am amongst the set who have opted out of chasing milestones. To me, chasing always seemed rather tone deaf. You see, I grew up in a pseudo-religious household, one that replaced "god" with "family" but also pushed opaque ideals and wore similar horse blinders. As such, I set out to learn about the world. By college age, I came to see that, well, it appears that we are rather fucked. If the Earth is in a state of overshoot, then it's only a matter of time before the wheels fall off. And, with each new data point, it's looked increasingly like a number of the effects would come to fruition in my lifetime. I'm not anti-natalist, but I've not been confident that I could create a life for children that protects them. I do want the human race to survive, and I'll strive to help my community in the ways that I can, but I'm not one to don earmuffs and make low probability decisions. "Don't look up" is not an option for me, as I've been looking throughout my life.
We are experiencing the effects of overshoot, so it's reasonable, in my opinion, to opt out and live in full awareness. Yes that spells the end of human systems as they currently exist, but that's how it goes. We've fucked around, and now we shall find out.
edit: I wanted to add, that repeating the same behaviors, e.g. chasing milestones, is what got us into this mess. I think it a mistake to become salty, pining for the lives of our forefathers. If we want to survive, we need to adapt to the reality of our situation. To expand upon why I say the tone of this article is lacking: it seems to suggest that breaking from the status quo is problematic when it's the first step toward finding a REAL solution.