I’m 73 and I understand nothing. Does that help?
Yes. Sounds like I can stop trying to understand and save a lot of trouble for myself.
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They understand the same amount they understood before, but the now understand the scope of what they lack.
I’ve been constantly learning new things for almost 50 years, but the amount I thought I understood and found out it was just bullshit as increased steadily.
When my parents hit this wall, they filled out with Fox News and conspiracy theories. When I hit it, I saw what all news outlets and the government were doing.
A lot of Hanlons Razer shit stopped adding up in government.
Adults don’t exist. We’re all just as clueless, some are simply better at improvising
I can’t find the sign up sheet for the info session so that I can understand.
Are you one of my adult students? Check the course email I couldn’t have bolded it or underlined it or put it in a different font more clearly.
Damn! I missed this meeting again?! Now I have to wait another 21 years!
I heard this so much in my “misguided liberal” youth. Now I’m in my 50s, and I have learned so much, seen so much, and can confidently be sure of*** even less than that of which I was sure in my teens and 20s***!
All of the people who told me “you’ll understand when you’re older” were full of shit. Some of them are still alive and one thing that I understand for sure: they stopped learning, stopped paying attention, and they are confidently incorrect about things that stopped being true during the first and second Reagan administrations.
Here’s a great example: my damned Conservative, MAGA, kick-the-ladder-out-from-behind-her mother. “You should just stay with an employer, stop changing jobs, and they’ll give you a pension.” Uh, yeah Mom, pensions are no longer a thing. Also, job hopping is how we get meaningful salary increases.
Now that you’re old enough, you’ll understand that it males no sense.
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My mother transitioned from: “You will understand when you’ll have children” to “You will understand when you’ll have grandchildren” (now that I have a child). I wonder what the next step would be.
You will receive enlightenment when you are dead.
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It must be next-to-impossible for parents to say, “I don’t know.”
They never knew, just kicked the ball down the field until it wasn’t their responsibility anymore.
Ah but understanding that you don’t understand is the first step in uh something
Anyone who says “You’ll understand when you’re older” is older and doesn’t understand either.
That’s what you will understand when you’re older.
This hits differently on your birthday 😄
