Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Elder Wisdom

The younger generation wants to change the present because they will have to live in the future. The older generation can be apathetic about the present since they will never see the future. So why do we let the older generation make all the rules?

"But experience and wisdom!!"

Yeah that wisdom brought us global warming, environmental destruction, several unwinnable wars, the most devastating economic catastrophe since the great depression, the destruction of the last semblance of democracy, social inequality on an unprecedented scale, etc. etc. etc.

Maybe that wisdom ain't all it's cracked up to be.