What are we “living longer” for?
A few years more of being poor?
To reach an age of destitution,
Helpless in dependency?
To be neglected; disrespected?
Sitting in the same old chair
In mean and squalid institutions,
Half aware, not really there?
Or, horror! With a lucid mind,
Enduring time and yet more time
To witness co-invented wars;
To weep at wasted brain and brawn –
Our social fabric worn and torn;
To mourn lost generations born
Into a scrapheap, harshly built
By systematic, alternating
Turns of greed and guilt?
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Qn – is “our lot” better or worse than that for those who came before us? You’re right, we live longer (although that’s sure to end if we have more than a few yrs of this govt); but we haven’t addressed how that’ll work. Do we want 78yr olds working? Doing what? Where will they(we) live? Will we be a burden?
BUT
them young ‘uns will need someone to tell them that it’s been shit since god wer a lad for most folk, and it can be changed. It will be changed.
And at least we’re not snails. And we have each other.
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Love your response! We’ve got a long way to go, haven’t we? Have to teach the young ones about the little and the big pictures; to be independent thinkers; that it’s a paradoxical universe and that it’s all a game, anyway… 🙂
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