It probably has something to do with engaging in activities that promote higher-order analysis and meta-thought. Older adults are usually capable of this; young

It probably has something to do with engaging in activities that promote higher-order analysis and meta-thought. Older adults are usually capable of this; younger kids would struggle. Consider the way you are “supposed to” watch an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine versus Better Call Saul. Both are fun for their respective age groups. If you watch the former in the form the latter, you start to see moires that probably escaped the writers (1). (1): https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressive-authoritarian-soul-of-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-friends https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressiv...