Don't forget that there's a lot of us "Boomers" (I was born at the very end of that generation) who absolutely do not live like this and have been fighting "the man" our whole lives.
Ditto what Rob D wrote. I left "home" and hit the road at an early age . Very early. In an old van with a dog . Never worked for the "man" . Left "my country" almost 40 years ago because no way was i going to work 50 years to live in that retirement village.
I moved , really moved, more than 20 times . I will not be going to my death wishing I had lived differently , had seen and done a lot . Am i happy ? Well....... I have a roof and running water and look better than most my age. And, i was smart enough to not take that jab .
But ..........i am headed for the last chapter . I think it would be tough anywhere... Not to be able to run and jump and yell yahoooooo . In that sense, we are all the same at some point. I never regret doing life differently than most
Don't forget that there's a lot of us "Boomers" (I was born at the very end of that generation) who absolutely do not live like this and have been fighting "the man" our whole lives. It's unfair to generalize an entire generation. Also, don't forget, that many "Boomers" were duped and hoodwinked just like the generations that follow have been. The long arm of the man has been hard at work manipulating the population for generations. I do get where you are coming from. But as I see it, there's a lot of blame to go around. Great post!
Excellent observations and writing. Truly, you are at your best writing about your walks around the suburbs of Perth. I walk a lot at night. My thoughts are very much focussed on the collapse and afterwards. It may be a function of nightwalking that creates these thoughts.
I, too, have wondered if I will spend old age huddled under a bridge in the rain after my home is acquired by the state for not complying to CBDC, or perhaps wrongthink. What they do not understand, the monitors and fascists, is that we do not fear this. We will put the keys on the bench and walk away. I would rather die under a bridge than submit to an injection.
Don't forget that there's a lot of us "Boomers" (I was born at the very end of that generation) who absolutely do not live like this and have been fighting "the man" our whole lives.
Ditto what Rob D wrote. I left "home" and hit the road at an early age . Very early. In an old van with a dog . Never worked for the "man" . Left "my country" almost 40 years ago because no way was i going to work 50 years to live in that retirement village.
I moved , really moved, more than 20 times . I will not be going to my death wishing I had lived differently , had seen and done a lot . Am i happy ? Well....... I have a roof and running water and look better than most my age. And, i was smart enough to not take that jab .
But ..........i am headed for the last chapter . I think it would be tough anywhere... Not to be able to run and jump and yell yahoooooo . In that sense, we are all the same at some point. I never regret doing life differently than most
Don't forget that there's a lot of us "Boomers" (I was born at the very end of that generation) who absolutely do not live like this and have been fighting "the man" our whole lives. It's unfair to generalize an entire generation. Also, don't forget, that many "Boomers" were duped and hoodwinked just like the generations that follow have been. The long arm of the man has been hard at work manipulating the population for generations. I do get where you are coming from. But as I see it, there's a lot of blame to go around. Great post!
Excellent observations and writing. Truly, you are at your best writing about your walks around the suburbs of Perth. I walk a lot at night. My thoughts are very much focussed on the collapse and afterwards. It may be a function of nightwalking that creates these thoughts.
I, too, have wondered if I will spend old age huddled under a bridge in the rain after my home is acquired by the state for not complying to CBDC, or perhaps wrongthink. What they do not understand, the monitors and fascists, is that we do not fear this. We will put the keys on the bench and walk away. I would rather die under a bridge than submit to an injection.
Most of the benefits that the boomers got came from socialist policies that were enacted because of a crisis, like a world war.
The irony is that they supported dismantling the socialist things as soon as they got more involved with stocks and investments.
The stereotypical boomer thinks people are poorer today because they didn't invest correctly... It's not that wages slumped since the 80s...
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