to elaborate on having younger friends: it's valuable to me because I don't know what it's like to be young right now. I was that age once but it's wrong to assume I know what it's like to be that age now. the world I was born into no longer exists. young ppl telling me what's going on, from their own experiences, is invaluable to me for understanding my own society holistically.
plus. young folks have time to fuck around and know where the good art is happening. I don't need algorithms I just need to know weird people with time on their hands
To pontificate on your elaboration,
Shit, I don't even know what being a kid was like for people my age! Like, so much of the shit I remember from my own childhood is extremely unique to my unusual circumstances
But also, while I can remember some of the facts of some of the things that I did or that happened around me, I can't remember how I felt about it except in some pretty extreme cases
