how come adults don’t look as ‘mature’ as they used to? I’m told it’s ‘neoteny’ but that answers nothing.

Question

As a millennial, I recognize that us 90’s kids just look like very tall teenagers, where as people our age back 30 to 40 years ago actually LOOKED like they were in their 20’s. Why is this?

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Answer 1

I’ve been reading a lot about how we’re losing initiatory rite-of-passage rituals and that’s preventing us from going through phases of maturity that earlier societies would go through