I can only imagine what this man must be thinking, watching the news today. Having lived 90 years, he was a kid during WWII. Fifteen when Hitler was killed and the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He saw Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, the Gulf War. He saw men land on the moon. He was a first-hand witness to incredible, incredible things.
But he's also watched the rise of the "information" age, and the fall of society. The demise of the American family unit, and the rise of 'progressive' culture. He saw that culture move past the fight for equal rights to venture into violent, dangerous territory. And he must've been astonished when people - rather than decrying the clown world ideas we see today - kept running with that ball.
Now he sits there and blows out 90 candles, as the biggest cities across America are burning. He watches people loot and destroy their own neighborhoods, while filming themselves on their phones for insta-fame. We're a culture of kneejerk reactions and herd mentality now. Painfully short attention spans. Constant, ravenous consumers of information, whether that information be bad or good, right or wrong.
There must be a crushing weight involved, with having seen all these things. With having watched mankind police itself via strong morals and a sense of right and wrong, until ultimately, right and wrong were redefined. He looks down now on 56 genders. On people screaming for the "rights" to things they didn't earn, even citizenship after having snuck into a foreign country and broken the law. Instead of fighting for justice people fight for unisex bathrooms and crazy titles. Instead of continuing the space race they turn their attention toward rationalizing barbaric customs and the fight to murder unborn children. He's seen men give up their masculinity, and women give him their femininity. He's seen these poor lost souls eternally miserable and unhappy, and they still can't figure out why.
At his age it must look like the whole fucking world is ending.
I can only imagine what this man must be thinking, watching the news today. Having lived 90 years, he was a kid during WWII. Fifteen when Hitler was killed and the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He saw Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, the Gulf War. He saw men land on the moon. He was a first-hand witness to incredible, incredible things.
But he's also watched the rise of the "information" age, and the fall of society. The demise of the American family unit, and the rise of 'progressive' culture. He saw that culture move past the fight for equal rights to venture into violent, dangerous territory. And he must've been astonished when people - rather than decrying the clown world ideas we see today - kept running with that ball.
Now he sits there and blows out 90 candles, as the biggest cities across America are burning. He watches people loot and destroy their own neighborhoods, while filming themselves on their phones for insta-fame. We're a culture of kneejerk reactions and herd mentality now. Painfully short attention spans. Constant, ravenous consumers of information, whether that information be bad or good, right or wrong.
There must be a crushing weight involved, with having seen all these things. With having watched mankind police itself via strong morals and a sense of right and wrong, until ultimately, right and wrong were redefined. He looks down now on 56 genders. On people screaming for the "rights" to things they didn't earn, even citizenship after having snuck into a foreign country and broken the law. Instead of fighting for justice people fight for unisex bathrooms and crazy titles. Instead of continuing the space race they turn their attention toward rationalizing barbaric customs and the fight to murder unborn children. He's seen men give up their masculinity, and women give him their femininity. He's seen these poor lost souls eternally miserable and unhappy, and they still can't figure out why.
At his age it must look like the whole fucking world is ending.
Maybe it is.