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Careless. Lazy. Fat. What’s Wrong With ‘The Childrens’ Today?
Yes, as we age we start saying: “When I was young, things were different…”
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As we mature, one begins to see great deterioration, because it is truly occurring. With eight billion people, and more on the way (especially with forced birth) the planet is being chomped off bit by bit every day, things really are different.
In the USA, for example, between Nixon and Trump we had a brief time of possibly enlightened democracy. Yet, it was quickly cooked, chewed up, and spat out by rapacious global greed, their wasteful trash, and power-mongers.
The first thing wrong with ‘childrens today’ (that’s what our family calls them — we call ourselves: ‘’the olds”,) is that they are up against a tougher world. Where the wealth disparity assures you are just as likely to become homeless than to afford a decent home. Where shortages will increase. A world on fire, you might say, and a world where the protests against inequality are heating up more every day.