maybe the main trouble between adolescents and older ones is:
when we grow older we are guilty and victim of a fundamental contradiction: 1) we learn that actually we do not know many things, i don't say we are growing old as Socratle ("i know that i don't know") but more exactly we become conscious that we know real few things even if we're not ever willing to admit it. 2) we take the few things we know and our habits very seriously, because it has become our main link to the world so even if we know that our habits and our knowledge has some uncertain bases it is very painful to see it recalled (remembered?)...
on the other hand adolescents are not yet in this contradiction because they have no real habits yet (or more exactly they're just discovering what it is to have habits) and they have no real knowledge either of anything so they think they are knowing all because they are not knowing enough to distinguish all from a few things (this is not a reproach, just they can't)... so it is a quite not so odd consequence that our habits and our lack of knowledge seem strange to them...
some have said what i'm trying to say replacing habits with order... but definitly i don't like this notion of order... so...
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