Dying Well

[suomalainen]

Likely the latter never occurs to most people in the first place. W/o external influences pushing them, they just stop wherever they were left w/o the push---some time during adolescence. On the internet (where everybody is a dog), after the age of 12-14, it's very hard to tell someone's chronological age by the wisdom they demonstrate.

Fair. It does seem like most people never advance past high school. With some of the chat-gpt ideas from the ai thread, that may reduce to elementary school soon enough.

[Bicycle7]

but the lack of interest in turning the focus inwards and learning how to become a different person seems to happen to most.

This reminds me of several comments I've read about Herman Hesse on the internet along the lines of: "I liked his books when I was 16, but after that, they weren't interesting to me any more."

This is certainly a fair opinion to have of Hesse's work either way, but it might also relate to the fact that Hesse's writings were all of the process of individuation.