• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    not sure whi said this

    Society doesn’t change when new ideas are brought up, Society changes when old people die.

    It was fucking Max Plank!!!

    A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it …

    Close enough

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        3 hours ago

        Different for each person. Very early if indoctrinated, like religion or peer culture. Some catch it when they transition to working life or overall success and catch the I got mine disease. I’d say it grows fairly early, teens at the latest, and solidifies early 20s. The I got mine crowd can happen late, like 30-40.

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        7 hours ago

        Generally the age when they start to feel overwhelming fear of change and the unfamiliar. Exposure therapy is probably the best cure.