Are You Still 12 Years Old? (podcast $)

It may be possible to appreciate your limitations if you really try. If you don’t, you won’t get past them.

“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
— Daisy Buchanan, from The Great Gatsby

I found this piece hard to write either because it’s about what you cannot see, or because it’s about what I cannot see. There is an elusive reason why people act like poorly developed adolescents but cannot see they’re doing it. I suggest that we must see this in ourselves. If we don’t, we won’t grow up.

These dark issues of savagery, selfishness, and self-destruction were William Golding’s themes in the book, The Lord of the Flies. Golding disliked children and cast them as villains, but the villains he portrayed are, in reality, exemplified by immature adults. It’s adults who behave like children—not children behaving like adults—who have created a world full of misery and stupidity.

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think?” — Piggy, from Lord of the Flies

“Quiet Piggy!” — Donald Trump, President of the United States, silencing the reporter Catherine Lucey.

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