I’ve observed and now experience the phenomenon of discovering practical politics in middle age—in your forties, you’ve learnt something from twenty years’ chimpanzee tribal interaction and your brain still works a bit, so you can more usefully understand and apply just how much everything is politics.
Whether it’s improved my writing is another matter. I’m better at sentences, but I have less motivation to write something that’s worth reading in the first place.
I’ve observed and now experience the phenomenon of discovering practical politics in middle age—in your forties, you’ve learnt something from twenty years’ chimpanzee tribal interaction and your brain still works a bit, so you can more usefully understand and apply just how much everything is politics.
Whether it’s improved my writing is another matter. I’m better at sentences, but I have less motivation to write something that’s worth reading in the first place.