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Interesting concept in this regard - Croatian artist Dalibor Martinis interviewed his future self, asking questions in 1978 and answering in 2010 on national TV. Has english subtitles. https://youtu.be/3SCQiKDxmhk
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I realize this post may come off as abrasive, but here it goes. > but recent news has made it clear to me that travel is one of the human obsessions that is destroying this world and that the future will not happen: If you think that impending climate change (/climate catastrophe) is significantly impacted by the "human obsession" of travel, you are drinking someone else's kool-aid and pulling wool over your eyes as…
Fair enough, but tourism is estimated to account for a tenth of global carbon emissions which is not insignificant: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/tourism-climate-ch... People have been espousing that we are doomed for decades, but many of them were actually right: we have not meaningfully deviated from the predictions made by the 1972 report The Limits of Growth ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_…
It's also the mindset for people who stagnate and adopt a defeatist attitude.
It's also an extremist mindset, that closes itself away from other options and is fueled constantly by more pessimistic thoughts.
It's also a mindset that can quickly lead to depression, due to the constantly negative and skewed perspective of life.
It's also an easy mindset to disguise as "realism". There is no realism in what you've advised, in fact the advice for people to stop reproducing due to a doomsday scenario is perhaps the least realistic thought when it comes to reactions to global warming. The absurdity of such an advice is only explained by the naivety of someone who only now started life (which is accurate).
It is shocking how much of this advice assumes that the world will be a similar place even a few years from now. There is a constant set of themes, for each of the years I scanned but especially my age which is 23, to travel, invest for the future, and start businesses and I am increasingly skeptical of each. I am just starting out, and I am here because I used to think that my future involved travel and startups, bu…
Per what subjective measure? There has been torture, famine, genocide, and worse catastrophes for millions of years. I'm not even exclusively talking about human, social constructs. Animals have been weeding each other out for forever. There have been asteroids that nearly strip earth of all life. Would you say those times were not worth living in either?
If so, i think you may want to ask yourself what makes life worth living. Life may be filled with struggle and adversity (and the specifics of how it is so will likely continue to differ), but the beauty of it is that we get to try our damndest to make better and more out of it.
Do not go gentle into that good night~
I like the idea, some thoughts.. Every year seems a little much? Maybe at young age, but 21/22/23 doesn't really make that much of a difference, or even 40/45 The advice should be written for the perspective of the reader not the writer: "Hey 13 year old, don't stop learning how to play piano" How would that help a 13 year old? Something like "Hey 13 year old, I stopped playing the piano at your age and now I'm regre…
- Piece of advice
- Written by a {person's age}-year-old
- Background on how that advice affected them to this point in their life.
Otherwise, it kind of reads like a generic motivational quote.
Hey X year-old: 90% of advice, like everything else, is bad.
It is shocking how much of this advice assumes that the world will be a similar place even a few years from now. There is a constant set of themes, for each of the years I scanned but especially my age which is 23, to travel, invest for the future, and start businesses and I am increasingly skeptical of each. I am just starting out, and I am here because I used to think that my future involved travel and startups, bu…
I heard the same advice 40 years ago. The world today is wonderful. I will be very sorry to leave it.
This reminds me very much of the video How To Age Gracefully [1]. One thing I think is missing is a "From: a x year old" for each bit of advice. I think the advice to someone in their 20's would be quite different coming from someone in their 30's vs 70's, and that in itself could be very interesting. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sycgL3Qg_Ak 4m40s
Each piece of advice has a little person icon with a number next to it. That's the age of the person that gave that advice.