<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the Peter Pan story, roughly speaking, as Peter Pan is this magical boy. Pan is the god of everything, roughly speaking… Right? So it is not an accident that he has the name Pan, and he is the boy that won’t grow up, and he is magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, that is because children are magical, they can be anything. They’re nothing but potential. And Peter Pan doesn’t want to give that up. Why? Well he’s got some adults around him, but the main adult is Captain Hook. But who wants to grow up to be Captain Hook?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, that’s what happends when you get older. Time has already got a piece of you, and eventually it’s got a taste for you and eventually it’s going to eat you. And so a hook is so traumatized by that, that he can’t help but be a tyrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then Peter Pan looks at traumatized Hook and says, “well no, I’m not sacrificing my childhood for that!” So that’s fine. Except he ends up King of the Lost Boys in Neverland. And Neverland doesn’t exist and who the hell wants to be King of the Lost Boys?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And he also sacrifices the possibility to have a real relationship with a woman, Wendy. She’s kind of a conservative, middle-class, London dwelling girl. She wants to grow up and have kids and have a life. She accepts her mortality, she accepts her maturity. Peter Pan has to content himself with Thinkerbell. She doesn’t even exist! She’s a substitute for the real thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the dichotomy that you are talking about is very tricky because there’s a sacrifical element in maturation, right? You have to sacrifize the pluri-potentiality of childhood for the actuality of a frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the question is well, why would you do that? Well. one reason is it happens to you whether you do it or not. You can either choose your limitation, or you can let it take you unaware when you’re 30 or even worse when you’re 40. And then that is not a happy day. You see, I see people like this and I think it’s more and more common in our culture because people can put off maturity without suffering and immediate penalty. But all that happens is the penalty accures and then when it finally hits it just wallops you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because when you’re 25 you could be an idiot, it’s no problem. Even when you’re out in the job search, it’s like well, you don’t have any experience, and you’re kind of clueless. Yeah, yeah, you’re young, it’s no problem. That’s what young people are like, but they’re full of potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the Peter Pan story, roughly speaking, as Peter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.higgus17.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}