alt Hacker NewsI also thought like you when I was in my 20's. However... the addolescent need to "rise up" is the first thing to go when you actually start a family and develop a well balanced social network. If you play your cards right, soon enough, you won't care about all this.
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I have a spouse and kids. I still stick to my guns. Both literally and figuratively. Speak for yourself.
I sincerely hope you are merely goading folks on and don't actually believe the words you speak.
I'm 45. My friend, I still resist licking the boot. Stop believing that your experience is somehow more universal.
I have a rich social network, I have a family, and now more than any time in my life do I think it's important to resist.
Stop saying you'll get less radical as you age, it's just not the axiom you think it is.
If anything I'm more 'radical' pushing 50 than I was at 20. That "everyone gets more conservative as you age" adage is not universal.
For me I was 'radicalized' by raising children to adulthood and seeing the broken world we're leaving to them. Living in the US, my eldest daughter has less rights than her mother did growing up. Capitulating to the demands of fascists is not the way to a better future. Complacency has a high cost, regardless of whether it affects you personally.