...losing your social “filters” doesn’t have as much to do with decaying faculties, but more to do with having lived long enough to not care that much anymore. Which sounds selfish and callous, and much less kind than blaming “dementia”…Bob Dylan in the NYT today, in a piece where artists in their 80s were asked to describe the best and worst parts of being that age, and whether they had advice for the president on his reaching the milestone. (Dylan apparently passed on the final question, not surprisingly.) pic.twitter.com/EaGu6Ni1sl
— Chris Willman (@ChrisWillman) June 14, 2026
…and then Dylan comes along and says it for me, and far better than I could. In short, it’s (or can be) a product of having lived, not a byproduct of having lived too long.
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
ReplyDeleteThat bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your looped and windowed raggedness defend you
From seasons such as these? O I have taken
Too little care of this.
What I learn more the older I get.