Time for us lot, the baby boomers, to put our hands up, take responsibility, and apologise.
The most privileged generation in history (well, if you happen to have been born in the west, white, and probably male), with the best of intentions we have ****ed everything up. We still have nearly all of the money and nearly all of the power, but we can’t use it effectively. We are spectacularly ill equipped to run the modern world, our brains were hard wired before instant communication, endless flows of information, opinion, entertainment, we think we can cope but we really can’t. We are far too slow, stuck in old binary ways of thinking and acting, unable to be nimble, confused by the new species of the young who are used to this ****, have a mobile in their paw from birth, untroubled by truth because they instinctively know that perception is all that counts, who understand that they don’t need to know anything at all because they have all the un fact checked answers a click away.
We should gracefully withdraw, recognising that our time is up, like the elves leaving Narnia at the end of the New Age (or whatever). But we won’t, because self awareness is our biggest blind spot. We still think we’re ****ing great, we’ll cling on, looking increasingly ragged and demented, until the bitter end, until assisted dying is made compulsory for us.
The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
I feel better for that. Now I’ll turn my lap top on, do some work and inadvertently **** things up a bit more.
I'm not that old am I?
