Not our world anymore Nov. 7, 2025
The cold came with a bang this week after we got remnants of
a massive hurricane over Jamaca. Not frigid, not yet, but with enough of a bite
that I’m forced to put on layers of clothing.
This is always a nostalgic time of year, after Halloween and
headed into the holiday season, when I start reminiscing about family and
friends, all mostly gone.
Worse is the fear that the world is changing drastically,
and that we are seeing the next generation take charge after so many decades of
having the baby boomers in control of it all, not by our outstanding philosophy
so much as by the sheer weight of numbers.
Now as we fade, a less populous generation takes charge,
filled with all of the misguided notions we somehow managed to abandon.
We have no way to know if these kids who are so infatuated
with socialism will survive to learn from their mistakes the way we have or
will they do inreparable harm to the world as we know it, turning it all in
shitshow from which something ugly will emerge.
Trump isn’t helping. He desperately seeks to restore the old
world order, fueling the outrage that will ultimately lead to giving these
idiots in places like Portland, Seattle and Los Angeles more incentive to
become even more outrageous.
I’m not even sure why it bothers me since I will not be
alive to see the full impact, only the fringes of it, like someone along the
coast waiting for a storm to arrive, seeing the wind pick up and the first
aspects of heavy rain, but not the full wrath of mother nature.
I just finished a marathon of watching James Bond movies,
and came to that point in which they kill off Bond before the producers sold
off the rights to Amazon.
Daniel Craig is the best bond, but then he went off the
range to do a new movie called “Queer,” possibly to break from being typecast –
much the way the main actor from Harry Potter did when he played Ginsberg.
Craig, who appears to be more than a little woke, seemed to
hate Bond, the sign of a truly great actor who can despise the character he
plays, and perhaps his latest role is his attempt to pound a stake into the
heart of the Bond Legacy – one more nail in the coffin of a generation that
grew up with Bond as a hero.
All things change, and so, we will have to suffer through this
the way other generations did when they saw their world fading, such as the
Dutch families whose farms my ancestors carved up to create housing for mill
workers, fundamentally altering the landscape and making it impossible to go
back.
This is Trump’s biggest mistake, assuming that what we had can
be resurrected, when it cannot be, and that the new generation is determined to
destroy all we created in order to create their own world which is far less welcoming
than ours was.
It is inevitable, and sad, but a reality we helped create,
as we actually set the foundation for this new and disturbing movement. I won’t
say we have only ourselves to blame, but it is non the less true. We rebelled against
our parents and grandparents, and established a pattern of behavior we now abhor,
and try to undo.
Trump has become a symbol against which the next generation
protests, and with him, all the values we allegedly want to restore. I don’t
know what the world will look like in ten or twenty years, but it won’t be a
place I’ll want to live in, and there is very little I can do about it, even if
I survive long enough to witness it.
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