[hzay]

What an incredible waste of words. What is this even based on?

For a start, where I'm from, there is no marker around the age of 40 (or 35 or 45). It's the age when people are extremely busy because of career & kids.

Secondly, culture is made by a lot of people. Not so many in their early 20s, but several from late 20s to 60s.

Thirdly, it is also made for people over 40s. Not perhaps Hollywood movies but how about carnatic music? Concerts in Chennai overflow with people over 50s, and barely anyone in their 20s.

Fourthly, it just sounds like someone had their 40th birthday, felt the usual crisis, and tried to make up some idea to create meaning for themselves. Nothing wrong with it I suppose, except that it has no meaning for others.

[antonvs]

Articles like this just come from people projecting their own personal bubbles onto everyone else.

You can see the cherry picking and confirmation bias in the dismissive reference to literary fiction.

[graemep]

I thought the attitude to literary fiction just reflected the limits of the author's literacy.

Lots of TV is aimed at older audiences for those who do not read.

[xk_id]

I don’t really have the energy to debate it in detail, but I wanted to let you know that personally I found the article extremely insightful. In fact, I ended up reading two other in-depth articles written on the same site. I can see what he’s pointing at and why the angle is worth writing and reading about.

[wiseowise]

Maybe it’s their way to create meaning for someone?

Some edgy thought of “playing god for others”, as they said.