It appears to me as if I have seen so much of the way the world is that it's hard to catch me off guard. I don't know if that's a blessing or a curse. I would have been bored to tears to have lived like I live now ten years ago. I really am beginning to see that people see me as an old man no matter how I feel inside. They treat me like an old man who might need some consideration where strength and agility is concerned.
Many people are merely dismissive. They haven't got any use for me. I haven't been treated as a sex object for a very long time. Some young people of both genders push there way right past me knowing full well they won't have to suffer by their doing of it. No blame. I suspect most people when they get old will be treated just like they treated old people when they were younger. In that sense I think I'll do alright. I took the learning to treat my elders with respect fairly seriously.
I read an e-mail this morning that mentioned Neo-Nazis and responded to that poster in a way intended to suggest that Neo-Nazism is a waste of time. I don't know if I made my thoughts clear on the subject. Mainly because my thoughts are not clear on the subject. Nazism is a form of Fascist (as I understand it), and people who kowtow to this form of government seem attracted to and feel the need to be ruled by a strong man. Like a king or a dictator.
I've never lived under that sort of governance. I don't know what it's like. I felt like George Bush wanted me to learn what it was like from him and Cheney. They're still in charge. I probably won't believe that they still don't have something up their sleeves until the actual switchover on the 20th of this month.
Candidly, although I voted for him and wish him the best, Obama, and the fanaticism he appears to attract from very large groups of people may accomplish with ease what Bush and Cheney could only ineptly prey for. I've never witnessed this many people of all ages and genders get this worked up over one man. Should I live so long... life is about to get very interesting in America. Don't ask me how?
I've written my opinion about that before. Up until the election a couple of years ago I was beginning to feel isolated in my belief that Bush and Cheney intended to dismiss the Congress and the court system and rule the United States by Divine Right or some crazy shit like that. I wasn't worried as much about the political end of this upheaval as much as the religious right feeling and acting like they had a mandate to make their brand of Christianity the State Religion. Who wants that?
I don't think the current economic crisis is an accident. Not any more than I believe 9/11 was not part of the same central plan of a really ambitious bunch of people of a global hue. I guess I'm bordering on conspiracy theories when I write stuff like this. That has always seemed a little silly to me. Not that some people might plot a grand scheme to take over something or the other. That reads like the status quo. Why would they not? There are probably thousands of sinister groups doing that this very moment.
That's why I figure Fascism and Nazism will soon be a thing of the past. the technology won't allow it. The reason I write that makes sense to me for one basic reason I concurrently disclaim as the truth. New technology constantly supersedes older technology. The people who create the evolutionary technology that replaces yesterday's newspaper get old with the technology they created, and new technology created by younger technicians will replace what worked last year. Nobody can be in charge long before a new generation makes what gave the older group their power, obsolete.
Trying to stop it from happening would be sorta like the several biblical stories when the oldest male child of every family of a chosen tribe was to be murdered. Done to keep the new generation from eventually replacing them and the ideas they'd grown comfortable with. As if they really believed they were immortal.
The neglected fourteen year olds of the world will always overthrow the status quo simply because they can. Why would they not? In a lot of cases, it's their only chance to feel important, and they work at it harder than those smug souls who took the money and traditions their parents provided and let life run away from them. No blame. Shit happens. Things change.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
