Professors from my generation sometimes express frustration that younger researchers don’t engage enough with earlier work (e.g., work from the late 20th century) In my view, this is *not* the problem we should be focusing on

An inevitable result of moving things in the right direction will be that younger researchers more often ignore genuinely helpful ideas that we developed decades ago This is regrettable in itself, but we should see it as part of a liberatory change that is on the whole good