I'm 35, probably won't have children because I'm queer, and I'm already meeting younger generations and being violently shaken awake by my appearance and that my country is full of people who don't seem to exhibit signs of self awareness.

I thought stupid people were relatively rare, but it's like there's a neverending supply of ignorance, hatred, vitriol, and the same bad logic/rhetoric that I've been trying to undo for the past 25 years. It's like every year, there's a new crop of some dumb myth that I haven't heard since 2010, each time I hear it, it's being parroted more and more confidently and belligerently.

My life stretches out in sisyphean walls of rhetoric at every front. Gaming, art, exercise, sexuality, politics, philosophy, or all number of micro topics like how to not use wet oven mitts or that if you own a car you have to actually maintain it. It's like I'm witnessing the speed of evolution and have too high of expectations.

Maybe this expectations came from early internet and my world view is also stuck in the early 2010s. But if that were the case, then how does me as an American at my age, you who is Nordic at your age, and a friend of mine who is ten years younger and an immigrant all have overlap? That makes no sense and leads me to believe a lot of these things are NOT inherent to our age, but maybe to the state of the world itself.