Times have changed over the last sixty some years as I can
personally attest to on my own experiences in life and the surrounding
dynamics. We have become a nation of political correctness and engaged into
social niceties that sometimes don’t make much sense when it comes to our own
life. We give up things for people we don’t even know. On the other hand, I refuse
to give up what I have, what I earned or what I fought for. It’s just not right
to ask to do so either.
Political correctness has drifted us away from the shore of
reasoning. It has caused us to be a part of society that has turned ugly and
mean in spirit and in behaviors. The human race has degraded so much, we hardly
recognize it any longer as the race that built the social cultures we once
lived by but have mutated into splinter groups difficult to recognize.
For example, the way humans used to interact was simple and
not much to figure out. Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. A human courtship is possible.
Over time, there was the engagement and then the marriage. It seemed simple
enough to figure out and I always thought it was. Let me warn you, if you are
easily offended, it’s best you not read this and just move on.
Today the pair bonding process has changed. It is no longer
boy meets girl or girl meets boy but rather it has become a little more
complicated than that. We haves girl meets girl and boy meets boy and then the
courtship is possible. How has this happened? Is the answer that easy to come
up with today? Not really but we should go back over time and see what
transpired since the 70’s or even the 60’s.
We have always had heterosexuals, homosexuals as well as
gays and lesbians. It has been a part of our lives and history thus we know
they exist but when you meet it face to face it is much more difficult to
understand than reading it out of a book. However, today, things have changed
whereas there are now laws on the books that gives each one of these groups
equal rights as a couple. Whether we agree or disagree, the laws have changed
and society’s cultural curve has as well.
Being a baby boomer and contributing to this madness by
having a shared responsibility of our children of the baby boomers, there are
reasons for such changes. Baby boomers, as a group, impacted society in an overwhelming
way that is partly responsible for what is happening in our society today.
Based on our mistakes, our reckless behaviors and
irresponsible corrupt, materialistic and sinister ways, we created generations
that mutated our values into their own while at the same time, holding on to
some of the traditional values mixing them into a melting pot of ideologies.
Today we have pot smoking, pill popping, war-mongering and
many other characteristics out there leading our kids into damnation. On the other side, we have love making, climate
control and naturalist, organic freaks who refuse to use the chemicals around
us. The world seemed to have become more corrupt as time goes by and there
appears to be no end to this madness. Eventually, the apocalyptic event will
end it all but that’s another matter we can talk about later.
In the meantime, governments have become freedom-crushing
instruments of privacy invasions in the name of fighting terrorism and
corporations are dominating the systems we rely on. Whether the technology is
good for us depends on how it is used.
Some say if you can’t beat them, join them. It seems simple
enough. Never mind the claims there is another better world. Giving up your
freedom seems reasonable to get the things you want in life until it no longer
matters and you are compromised just like the rest. Love is life’ most precious
gift but it seems to be fading away quickly. Hate appears to be the dominant
force today.
There is more hate in this world than ever before. There are
people today who boast that the best things in life are free and refuse to work
one day in their lives to earn it. Life as we knew it has ended. The new world
order is confusing, chaotic and never ending in a state of political
correctness and religious warfare. We are our own worst enemy and we never
realized it but there was a time when we had everything we ever wanted or
needed to be happy.
Do I blame our “visions of free-love” as the root of all
evil? Not even close. That’s not what started this disease. This concept was
built on a lighter stage of consciousness, enlightenment and ultimate happiness
in life, not the opposite. Granted, it might have been abused by many and
created a chemical mutation in our brains as the LSD and other hallucinogenic
substances were plentiful those days.
However, society has evolved into an illicit drug use meth, cocaine,
heroin, abusive prescription pill pandemic and mental illness runs rampant
without treatment endangering both the person and the society they live in. we
have ruined any vision we may have ever had to see the world like we wanted it
to be. It is with a high degree of certainty that the baby boomer generation
contributed to this mess.
Discrimination has reverted to indiscriminate feelings. Equality
has been applied to everything from living to non-living fossils. The world has
reached a new level of extremism and it can’t seem to stop. We live and
tolerate the plagues, diseases and act as if they are acceptable.
The Ebola, HIV AIDS and other diseases are killing people
but nobody is worried about them, they worry just about themselves. Cancer has
spread exponentially with no cure in sight but we are talking about living on
Mars and visiting the stars in the universe above us.
If you ask are we now living in the armpit of the world, I say
it depends where you are in your own life and your own morality and mortality
of life. Hanging onto old values can be good but not adapting to the new can
bring you heartaches and sorrow.
There is no simple life today, it’s all so complicated you
sometimes just want it to go away. Confused and angry are emotions to deal with
but if you learn to become less discerning, you can cope with anything. Beware
though, apathy will set in. Can we afford to lower the quality of the human
genetic pool any further? I guess that’s a question for those living in the tomorrow.
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