08-07-2019, 10:57 AM
(12-28-2018, 01:31 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: At 63, and nearly broke, I am likely to spend the rest of my miserable life in a community that I have outgrown except for finances. Thyis is America, and money is everything. Those who have it can indulge themselves like sultans. Those who lack it are the victims of those who live like sultans.
It is unlikely that I will get to reconnect to old friends that I had in California or Texas, so the best that I can hope for with social media is to vicariously meet complete strangers who might have something to share other than the banalities of small-town life.
A perspective: I was born closer to the horse-and-buggy era than to today. Unfortunately I was brought up among people still thinking as if it were still the horse-and-buggy era whose only accommodation to modernity was to technology, and then only for materialistic ends.
The only positive for me is that as a male, the numbers are in my favor. Asperger's makes me a difficult match.
I just saw an article which stated that the advent of social media contains an extreme irony, and that is that social media has actually made people less social than they were before we had it. Whoever famously said that if you want a friend, get a dog, wasn't very far off the mark.
Your opening paragraph here brings to mind something I read awhile back which discussed the fact that at least one-third but maybe closer than half of today's population is quite luckless in that they are forced to live paycheck to paycheck with just one unexpected expense throwing them into ruin. And they are mostly unlikely to escape their plight save for a unexpected stroke of luck such as a lottery win. And as a result they were named Generation Limbo. From that I was able to come up with the perfect acronym for limbo. Lower Income Mostly Beyond Overhaul.