"These pristine reflections of our former selves will live on in the tombs of archived data; they will outlive us."
True. However, from what I have seen, most people don't even care what they were like before.
The majority of people are too concerned about their idiot kids and mortgages to contemplate and ponder about life, time, etc. Once you have kids and a mortgage, I doubt you will even care about backing up clayallsopp.com.
Don't take my word for it:
* the anti-war hippy generation.
* the Ayn Rand crowd of the 60s/70s.
* the Springsteen/anti-nuclear generation.
* the Ron Paul generation.
They are all now (or will be) a bunch of yuppies worried about their retirement benefits. They have "better" things to do than to ponder about life, time, etc.
I think you are mis-reading the intention of the post.
It's not about caring. It's not that we want to go back and relive the past. It's more about how you are ready to message someone and some older conversation from 2007 pops up. It's a weird nostalgic feeling about something you don't really care about much. But hey it's out there.
The majority of people aren't occupied with their past selves because they're concerned with raising their kids and providing for them, and that's somehow bad...?
Yuppie was a generational thing. In their day, urban real estate was affordable (white flight; older people terrified of cities) and people actually could climb the corporate ladder. 25-year-old urbanites aren't true yuppies. Our generation came up in a different time.
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"These pristine reflections of our former selves will live on in the tombs of archived data; they will outlive us."
True. However, from what I have seen, most people don't even care what they were like before.
The majority of people are too concerned about their idiot kids and mortgages to contemplate and ponder about life, time, etc. Once you have kids and a mortgage, I doubt you will even care about backing up clayallsopp.com.
Don't take my word for it:
* the anti-war hippy generation. * the Ayn Rand crowd of the 60s/70s. * the Springsteen/anti-nuclear generation. * the Ron Paul generation.
They are all now (or will be) a bunch of yuppies worried about their retirement benefits. They have "better" things to do than to ponder about life, time, etc.
I think you are mis-reading the intention of the post.
It's not about caring. It's not that we want to go back and relive the past. It's more about how you are ready to message someone and some older conversation from 2007 pops up. It's a weird nostalgic feeling about something you don't really care about much. But hey it's out there.
You're right. I went off on a tangent. Apologies to the author. Thanks for politely pointing that out to me.
The majority of people aren't occupied with their past selves because they're concerned with raising their kids and providing for them, and that's somehow bad...?
Unrelared, but something I've never figured out: How do we format lists on Hacker News?
I've seen people do it, so I know there's a way.
Leave a blank line between each item:
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Alternatively, use the monospace font by putting two spaces before the text:
>They are all now (or will be) a bunch of yuppies worried about their retirement benefits
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Yuppie was a generational thing. In their day, urban real estate was affordable (white flight; older people terrified of cities) and people actually could climb the corporate ladder. 25-year-old urbanites aren't true yuppies. Our generation came up in a different time.
They are all now (or will be) a bunch of yuppies worried about their retirement benefits.
Zeitgeist right there. When "yuppie" was coined, it meant "young urban professional". Those people are now pushing 60.