The end (ongoing) result is a slowing, a deescalation. So different from the constant acceleration of youth, the endless addition of skills, materials and capacities... endless? Poor choice of words.
Technological advancement and societal complexity compond the rate of change. Exponentially. The rate of change has changed.
Kurzweil wrote of an approaching Singularity, a point in time when the rate of change in technology exceeds the ability of humans to comprehend. Technologies like computer science, robotics, nanoscience, biological sciences, material sciences, astrophysic,,,all the sciences.
And societal change with gender and sexual identity, critical race theory, cryptocurrency and shifting geopolitical powers has already reached that point of noncomprehension... at least for me.
There are choices to be made. Rage against the flow of time? Or relax into the mystery. Transition from participant to spectator. Shed the worries and refocus on what matters most. Easier said than done. The ego is powerful.
At times, I am able to just observe the ebb and flow of daily life. Other times, I find myself expounding, babbling, proving to someone or myself that I am still vital. But, increasingly, I am content to be quiet, able to slap down the ego's need for external validation.
Mark Twain wrote, "Never miss an opportunity to shut up."
Rings true.
