80 year old

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You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!

You both like activism.

You: what specific cause(s)

You: do you care about?

Stranger: poverty, world hunger, avoidable diseases

Stranger: the usual ones

Stranger: baically, why people still dont have access to basic resources when we have enough resources world wide to feed everyone

Stranger: why a few people hoard all the resources while others dont have access to them

Stranger: why drugs are created to heal people, but dont get to the people who need them the most

You: wow, I'm impressed

You: I could say that I care about the same things, just in different words

Stranger: lets hear your words

You: extreme poverty, effective altruism, consequentialism, telos, etc (more pretentious words)

You: so

You: where are you in life? such as, how old are you?

Stranger: 80

Stranger: its funny. the young want to seem older, and the older want to seem younger

You: maybe just everyone wants to be 30

Stranger: im pretty sure 30 year olds want to be in their 20s. because at 30, time is running out on freedom, and thats when you have to get a family and kids and a house etc. all the things that tie you down and suck out your freedom

You: so what was/is your type of work?

Stranger: nothing significant. was a banking clerk all my life

You: does wisdom come with age?

Stranger: no. wisdom comes with experience. technically that is age but its not really

Stranger: nothing beats a true living and breathing experience

Stranger: you can read about something all your life and memorize all the ins and outs, but experience is a whole other beast

Stranger: and ofcourse its to do with your reaction to the experience as well. a really old person can experience something for years and not be wise, while a 14 year old kid can be wiser depending on how impactful that experience is on them

Stranger: but now im just ranting

You: ha

You: okay, but some things you can't experience though

You: or some things are better to read about

Stranger: of course. but it helps to be grounded and empathetic

Stranger: maybe experience isnt the right word for all the situations. a better word would be exposure

Stranger: so you can have a very sheltered old person who does not expose themselves to the world, or a really young person who exposes themselves to the world

Stranger: one is wise, the other is not

Stranger: anyway, i meant to ask. how does one in a technical field like engineering feel so strongly about activism?

You: how?

Stranger has disconnected.