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• dirk.bruere commented on Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
  What's happened in Russia will happen here if things go on as they are....
• ilya187 commented on Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
  You are being very coy about your (former) field of expertise. Why don't you just tell us what are these "most common organisms" hardly anyone studies? Nematodes?...
• Stina Leicht commented on Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
  "The thing is, would you reinvent yourself if society gave you a role you were comfortable with?" Speaking for myself, I get bored too easily--unless we're talking about writing. For some reason, I see endless permutations of areas of interest there. Of course, that's what mastery is about, right? At the same time, we humans need varied experiences to be more whole. I'm not sure it's 100% possible to design such a system. Sure, stability is a good thing, but stagnation is not. As with many things, it's the balance not the extreme that is more desirable. "Yes, that's a...
• ilya187 commented on Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
  Say that you had a clean progression from child to student to functioning adult to master to elder to revered ancestor? Certainly, such a routine is impossibly constricting to some, but I'm pretty sure that most people would jump at the chance, especially if it offered the possibility of becoming a respected master of something they innately had some skill with. I think you are oversimplifying things here. Between "impossibly constricting" and "jump at the chance" there is quite a bit of room. I am comfortable with steady learning, and am very bad at "reinventing myself". Yet in my admittedly...
• Stina Leicht commented on Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
  "And I know a lot of people my age who also would have liked SECOND career -- as opposed to "constant reinventing". Not sure how society should be structured to accomodate this." Personally, the longer people live I think the more we'll see second careers. My background being one of reinvention actually works for me as a writer. A large number of writers have backgrounds like mine, actually. We need experiences to build stories from. It seems to be how it works for a lot of people....