[FRIAM] Pondering the slang Adulting

[Marcus Daniels]

Glen writes:

< The real trick is whether adulting is driven by the real world or severely abstracted stereotypes of what young people *think* is adult behavior. >

< But it doesn't change the conclusion that playing the role of an adult is distinct from being an adult. And I maintain that playing the role is more powerful and less delusional than *being* the role. >

One can adopt prototypes which will provide some cognitive insulation from being the role.  Alternatively, one can define or mutate a definition of what being a responsible person means in a subjective sense.   If this Self is not {de/re}constructed, I think it is probably copied from other prototypes.   It is especially likely in adolescence when the pressure to fit-in is overwhelming.    Whether the Self arises from lots of mixing and matching or from some sort of design is a detail.    I'm just throwing out the possibility Self doesn't even exist for some people, or maybe even at all, so there is no need to keep an alternative prototype at arm's length.

Marcus