That’s a very strange line… but in that context I don’t think what we’re saying is very far apart
I say “there are no adults” because no one knows what is going on. Everyone is improvising, no one has all the answers
But people often put on the trappings of an adult. They tell you they understand the world and are in control. And that’s not a bad thing. But sometimes they wear it so hard they convince themselves
The people that convince themselves, those are the people who have stopped growing. They have decided what the world is and how it works, they think they know what is going on… But they don’t. No one does. They’ve just stopped changing. They don’t challenge their beliefs, they become fixed in place relative to society
There are no adults. There are people who can fill the social role of an adult while still changing, and then there’s people who believe they already understand everything
That’s a very strange line… but in that context I don’t think what we’re saying is very far apart
I say “there are no adults” because no one knows what is going on. Everyone is improvising, no one has all the answers
But people often put on the trappings of an adult. They tell you they understand the world and are in control. And that’s not a bad thing. But sometimes they wear it so hard they convince themselves
The people that convince themselves, those are the people who have stopped growing. They have decided what the world is and how it works, they think they know what is going on… But they don’t. No one does. They’ve just stopped changing. They don’t challenge their beliefs, they become fixed in place relative to society
There are no adults. There are people who can fill the social role of an adult while still changing, and then there’s people who believe they already understand everything