03-31-2020, 09:30 PM
(03-31-2020, 05:48 PM)TheNomad Wrote: No one wants to "pick a poison" anymore. As for the person wondering why there are WAY too many old people and they had said "why aren't the younger stepping up" these OLDER have a stranglehold on positions of power.
They need to step down/away simply to make room for younger people. It isn't that younger generations do not have the will or ability to do these things, just the opposite. They are being blockaded out by the ruffians above who earnestly believe these younger folks are not able or willing to do what is necessary.
This, even when most of these older generations in power barely know what is the Internet except their phone pushes a button with an icon. And their younger staff trains them on such things.
Again, it is my personal belief older folks in power cannot let go of their stranglehold because they are inherently dialed into a Values-Driven crusade. They cannot give up their authority because, to them, doing so is dereliction and abandonment of whatever thing god or the gods or their conscience or their values won't allow.
There are waves of younger people waiting to actually solve the emerging problems barely understood by the Ancients. We should find a way to force them into retirement lest these struggles of the past decades visit us with more doom.
But there are many examples of when one may need to “pick a poison”. I am at one such crossroads right now. My car is a 2009 model with over 250k miles. Over the past four years or so I have had to incur some quite expensive repair bills; the alternative being getting a new or more recent model car and be locked into a hefty mandatory payment for the next several years, in addition to higher insurance rates. When my dad was alive he would have definitely advised for the latter option. A classic “pick your poison “ situation if there ever was one. Know I will eventually have to succumb to the latter but hope to delay it as long as possible.