• Grippler@feddit.dk
    373·
    6 months ago

    Huh, I seem to be getting something way different from this comic than most people here…

    I’m seing knowledge being transferred, and as the number of sources and amount of information increases, it gets harder to figure out how everything interconnects and how it all fits together. But as you get older, you get more experience and start to see how things fit together and the world makes more sense. In the end the jumbled information you’ve received through your life makes more sense to you, and you transfer the new sum of information on to someone.

    • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 months ago

      I feel like the more experiences I get, and the more experiences I learn of from other people, the less the world makes sense. The more I sit alone stuck in the echo chamber of my skull’s interior, the more experiences I can easily discount and ignore.

      I don’t think anything about the world is simple or easy to understand, and I get worried when I start thinking that I have life boiled down to a few simple rules

        • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          In the show Boston Legal, the character Denny has dementia, which progresses across the seasons. In one episode he starts taking medication that start helping him think straight, but it also takes away some of the kookiness that he and his friend enjoy. It also seemingly made him a bit more aggressive. In the end, he decided to stop taking the meds and he says he kind of missed his fog.

  • YeetPics@mander.xyz
    516·
    6 months ago

    “The result of having an open mind is having a closed mind, so don’t bother opening your mind at all”

    -this comic, apparently

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      I don’t think that’s the point it’s making, that the old person has a closed mind. Just that they seem to have ideas and values which seem e.g. morally ancient or something similar, but by the time you reach their age your values and world view will have changed to probably be very similar. I don’t see any values being placed on what they are thinking.