LEFT TURN CLIVE Disappointment is something all presently coexisting generations will likely experience. Disappointment for those of us growing up, those of us in middle age too. It’s a disappointment at not being able to get what the elderly have - namely money and assets. The young have it even worse, as their prospects at being able to own a home or achieve a comparative level of comfort and wealth is even less likely. There will be exceptions of course but the trend will be one of diminishing returns. There is a jealousy here, an unfairness because the opportunities afforded to the boomer generation just don’t exist anymore. There are multiple reasons for this and those reasons are most reasonable: late capitalism has exploited the furtherest reaches of this planet. The Western global hegemony is running out of third world to fuck over, that is to say that it is still doing that but the cost of resource extraction is going up. There is climate change and eco-devastation too. Crops are harder to grow in some places and the chaos of shifting weather patterns is making the act of farming more costly. There is also that rather large problem of people. There’s just so many of them now, all competing and stinking up the place with their cars, plastics, mobile phones, wifi and cancers. So many of the older generation are just fucked. They add nothing and simply exist to consume. I tell ya business is booming round where I live when it comes to the sale of mobility scooters. I kid you not, on one of the main roads into town, right next to a car sales showroom is an equally large mobility scooter showroom.
On Disappointment
On Disappointment
On Disappointment
LEFT TURN CLIVE Disappointment is something all presently coexisting generations will likely experience. Disappointment for those of us growing up, those of us in middle age too. It’s a disappointment at not being able to get what the elderly have - namely money and assets. The young have it even worse, as their prospects at being able to own a home or achieve a comparative level of comfort and wealth is even less likely. There will be exceptions of course but the trend will be one of diminishing returns. There is a jealousy here, an unfairness because the opportunities afforded to the boomer generation just don’t exist anymore. There are multiple reasons for this and those reasons are most reasonable: late capitalism has exploited the furtherest reaches of this planet. The Western global hegemony is running out of third world to fuck over, that is to say that it is still doing that but the cost of resource extraction is going up. There is climate change and eco-devastation too. Crops are harder to grow in some places and the chaos of shifting weather patterns is making the act of farming more costly. There is also that rather large problem of people. There’s just so many of them now, all competing and stinking up the place with their cars, plastics, mobile phones, wifi and cancers. So many of the older generation are just fucked. They add nothing and simply exist to consume. I tell ya business is booming round where I live when it comes to the sale of mobility scooters. I kid you not, on one of the main roads into town, right next to a car sales showroom is an equally large mobility scooter showroom.