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This Old Guy
Today Versus Yesterday
Why the past matters, and why the youth would benefit from old people.
I guess it’s dangerous remembering the past. For whatever reason, my process of string of consciousness writing brought up a song. It’s still available, a beacon of light on the hill. I know no one might believe this from a person born in the 60s, but there was real hope back then. No one had to use words of inclusivity. It was understood. No one had to make it into law or corporate policy. In fact, it was often a fight to do it because that powers that be didn’t want it. This old coke song, Star Trek in its original form- were beacons of hope in a world bouncing from police action to police action, and some 60s years later- we’re still in police actions, and still clubbing our own people. Today, all the antiwar voices have been silenced.
I grew up thinking the world would be in a better place by now. We would be one race, the human race. We’d have flying cars like in the Jetsons. Seriously, if you didn’t read your grandfather’s, or now great grandfather’s Popular Mechanics hiding in the back of his closet, you missed out. There were flying car and anti-gravity machine in every issue.
Till one day it stopped. Along with a the loss of Buddy Holly. Bye, Bye this Anakin guy, may be Vader some…
