Ursula

<nod> Much seems to depend on personal engagement--whether an individual feels they've already made some choices relevant to what Hirshman discusses or whether the individual is (simply?) reliant upon others' anecdotes. Relative age, or something, in terms of likelihood of having had to confront certain issues. Now I'm making up some sort of maturity paradigm that I don't like or particularly agree with, but in broad strokes I think the "depends whether" bit isn't wrong.