Jason Kirk
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Jason Kirk:
[Answering questions that I wasn't able to get to during our book launch party.] From Will Made Good: "How did you get back into the mind of a teenager so well? Was there research or did you have journals to look back on?"
Jason Kirk
Did I ever leave it in the first place?
I don't think any adults are as Grown Up as we like to believe. We look back on our younger selves and put on a big performance of cringing and recoiling, to let everyone know we're so much cooler now than we used to be, but that's the thing: We're not cool now, either.
The work was really just about getting honest, then constantly realizing I hadn't gotten honest enough yet. Stripping away weapons wielded as armor and looking at the kid I was fighting to reclaim, a kid who said every thought that entered his head, whether it came out right or not.
Isaac's mom (who is at times the book's closest thing to an author stand-in, despite voting and believing very differently from me) explains it like this: "It takes honesty, to look back at who we were before we learned to hide."
(Also, the book needed lots of dick jokes, but again: Adults also make shitloads of dick jokes. We're not as Grown Up as we like to believe.)
I don't think any adults are as Grown Up as we like to believe. We look back on our younger selves and put on a big performance of cringing and recoiling, to let everyone know we're so much cooler now than we used to be, but that's the thing: We're not cool now, either.
The work was really just about getting honest, then constantly realizing I hadn't gotten honest enough yet. Stripping away weapons wielded as armor and looking at the kid I was fighting to reclaim, a kid who said every thought that entered his head, whether it came out right or not.
Isaac's mom (who is at times the book's closest thing to an author stand-in, despite voting and believing very differently from me) explains it like this: "It takes honesty, to look back at who we were before we learned to hide."
(Also, the book needed lots of dick jokes, but again: Adults also make shitloads of dick jokes. We're not as Grown Up as we like to believe.)
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Jason Kirk
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Jason Kirk:
[Answering questions that I wasn't able to get to during our book launch party.] From Will: "This book is specifically evangelical, but what are the commonalities you see in culture (if not degree) across different faiths? What should we be worried about with evangelicalism growing in political importance, and how can exvangelicals and other religious refugees stop it?"
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