Our language and culture is changing at a rapid pace. I'm reading a biogaphy of FDR and I am constantly noticing how language and how people express themselves has changed in the last 75 years. So maybe what you are talking about is natural. But it doesn't feel that way to me.
You make a very poignant point in this essay! Maybe I too am ready for a retirement home where I speak the same language as the other inmates.
Approaching 5 years into my unexpected retirement, I still haven't fully settled into the fact that no longer have to meet the public in an official sense, and my vocabulary and syntax no longer are subjected to a constant honing by a dense collection of ongoing conversations. I should be able to relax into my assigned demographic, but the reality is that I suspect that I'm falling out of sync with the general public. It probably doesn't matter, until it does.
I think Doomscrolling originally had more to do with learning if your three month relationship was falling apart. Now it’s all political. For me, Substacks have added to that. Those of us who are retired have too much time. I have noticed that most folks who are still working, especially if they have kids, pay attention to politics about 10% of what I do. I do it for them.
Our language and culture is changing at a rapid pace. I'm reading a biogaphy of FDR and I am constantly noticing how language and how people express themselves has changed in the last 75 years. So maybe what you are talking about is natural. But it doesn't feel that way to me.
You make a very poignant point in this essay! Maybe I too am ready for a retirement home where I speak the same language as the other inmates.
Approaching 5 years into my unexpected retirement, I still haven't fully settled into the fact that no longer have to meet the public in an official sense, and my vocabulary and syntax no longer are subjected to a constant honing by a dense collection of ongoing conversations. I should be able to relax into my assigned demographic, but the reality is that I suspect that I'm falling out of sync with the general public. It probably doesn't matter, until it does.
I think Doomscrolling originally had more to do with learning if your three month relationship was falling apart. Now it’s all political. For me, Substacks have added to that. Those of us who are retired have too much time. I have noticed that most folks who are still working, especially if they have kids, pay attention to politics about 10% of what I do. I do it for them.