I like to consider myself as a critical thinker who’s undergone (and declared) some major changes from childhood or early adulthood, including in the realm of values, who can point to numerous drastic breakpoints, who managed to shrug off his childhood religion without apparent effort, etcetera...
...but that doesn’t mean I’ve broken the clear causal chain between myself and Thundercats. It’s not as if I ever literally started over with new source code.
And since I can’t do that—is there a reason why I shouldn’t have been influenced by Thundercats? Having the same religion as your parents is one thing. Keeping exactly the same politics you grew up with is one thing. But wait a minute—just where is my personality supposed to come from if not from Thundercats and similar sources?
Where is the store that sells personalities created entirely out of Deep Wisdom? Is there more than one store? Because if it’s not perfectly unique… then you might end up walking into one store, and not another, for reasons that ultimately have to do with reading A. E. Van Vogt’s Null-A books as a kid...
I like to consider myself as a critical thinker who’s undergone (and declared) some major changes from childhood or early adulthood, including in the realm of values, who can point to numerous drastic breakpoints, who managed to shrug off his childhood religion without apparent effort, etcetera...
...but that doesn’t mean I’ve broken the clear causal chain between myself and Thundercats. It’s not as if I ever literally started over with new source code.
And since I can’t do that—is there a reason why I shouldn’t have been influenced by Thundercats? Having the same religion as your parents is one thing. Keeping exactly the same politics you grew up with is one thing. But wait a minute—just where is my personality supposed to come from if not from Thundercats and similar sources?
Where is the store that sells personalities created entirely out of Deep Wisdom? Is there more than one store? Because if it’s not perfectly unique… then you might end up walking into one store, and not another, for reasons that ultimately have to do with reading A. E. Van Vogt’s Null-A books as a kid...