Post #1247860

Since I was a teenager, I have tended to interact with adults more often than people my age or younger. I found people my age generally emotionally unstable and intellectually unstimulating. I thought, as I grow up, surely, people my age would become a moving target, and they'd be older and wiser. But actually, that has somehow not been the case? That's not to say there are no stupid adults, of course there are. But as I grow up and mature emotionally and intellectually, I continue to find people my age who haven't done the same introspective work and exhibit immaturity and instability. And this pisses me off. On one hand, I have spent countless hours to introspection and philosophy while people my age just went to parties, did drugs and alcohol. On the other, these people have been able to vote in democracies for several decades now, and their stupidity is hampering political progress because they refuse to take responsibility for their own education and introspection. I am not entitled to anyone's time, much less demand they spend time doing what I think they should do. But over and over, as I try to give everyone an opportunity, I just experience the same behaviour from people my age and younger. It is kind of exhausting.