The Childishness of Ordinary Adulthood

Jadedness, symbolic cognition, and the playacting of our social roles

The experience of being a child differs tremendously from that of being an adult, which is the basis of our nostalgia for the innocence and rapture of being shepherded by guardians when we encountered the world for the first time.

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