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[quote=Anonymous]I am in my late 40s and I have noticed in the past year a growing sense of feeling like every single aspect of the world has changed so drastically that it's hard to integrate all of it into a somewhat coherent understanding of the world.   Do you relate? Don't relate?

In the early 2000s, I did not feel like the technological changes and national/world events taking place were shattering my basic assumptions about how the world works.  I felt like I could loosely anticipate the trajectory of my life over the next five to ten years.  I do not know if this is a natural part of aging or if I am lacking perspective of how this chaotic time fits with history.  My parents were born in the late 1940s and I don't know that by the 1980s (their 40s) the world looked so drastically different.

I look back at the 1990s and it all seemed so much....quieter and predictable, but I was an adolescent.

My question is---do you think the world changed faster and more drastically from 2000-2021 than it did from 1980-2000, 1960-1980, 1940-1960....or is it just the effect of being in mid-life? [/quote]

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