"We learn to walk and speak in childhood, and nobody regards these as childish activities." - George Walford, Beyond Politics 1990
Today's post, Against Maturity was originally published on 18 February 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Dividing the world up into "childish" and "mature" is not a useful way to think.
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