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What is to be fearing in age?

A overly drawn out reaction to Vonneguts "Timequake" with meditations on a purposeless life.


  • Aging

    We fear what we do not know. And also getting older is one step closer to death which many many people fear also. For me i fear getting older because you spent a whole lifetime obtaining wisdom and vast knowledge just to have it stripped away to the point where you can't even remember your grandson's name. Also i am a musician and i will have to deal with Osteoperosis. I won't be able to embrace that which i love and pick up an instument and play. So with Music and memory gone i replace it with fear.

    50%  Voted for by Demonethes, Kei-Aira.
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  • Life is constant, without direction

    Having just finished Kurt Vonneguts botched novella attempt "timequake" (two) it is becoming more apparent to me that nothing is scarier in the lives of Americans than the fear of aging. How is it possible that people can be so afraid of something so constant and inevitable? I believe that the past (mistakes, unchosen paths) become a more apparent billboard in the backs of minds as age increases. Inevitable death is viewed as a final sentencing to life without "what could have been". Even Vonnegut, master of dark prose, was unable to complete a novel without spending considerable time reflecting on his own mortality. This fear is constant and increasing in the minds of most Americans, and people worldwide. This causes a drive for "legacy", and thus shootings and bombings and books that are not of good quality. People are dust, dust is nothing, we still exist.

    Voted for by unbroken record.
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  • scary?

    and yet Vonnegut pondered his own mortality without fear. Objectively. And wrote a book from outside him'self'. So maybe you don't worry about everything you've failed if you age nicely, wisely, carelessly. Read House of Leaves, by Danielewski. There's nothing in the dark that isnt in the light.

    Voted for by Carlos The Barlos.
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