My days of fighting demons are done.
by BeijingIrish (2024-02-14 12:48:08)
Edited on 2024-02-14 12:50:33

In reply to: I fight the demons of cynicism daily....  posted by Marine Domer

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I rage, but I do it silently. I am alone--there is no audience in the man cave from where I follow the daily pageant of silliness on the PB.

I suppose I could be angry all the time, but then there is Usher in his sparkly pants. What joy! What I do have all the time is shame, and it arises every time I look at my grandsons. It occurs to me that my Boomer counterparts and I are supremely lucky. We will not live to see the end (unless the Great Pacific War begins this year or next).

The shame comes from knowing that we fucked it up. We squandered every advantage, never took the right path, avoided sacrifice. I do not suggest that we are unique--those who follow us are doing a splendid job of fucking it up. And, btw, I don't buy the Greatest Generation bullshit. They gave us Vietnam among other things. They loved their cocktails and their entitlements.

I belong on an island somewhere. St. Helena or Pitcairn. But given a choice, I'd select the Big Island.

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