We did change a lot. It is super depressing that some of the improvements are being degraded by the haters. But, I have a lot of optimism about the younger generation, they have plenty of energy to fight. But for myself I'm worn out and hope to simply cheer from the sidelines.
It is absolutely not just you... I've noticed and it's made me so sad. Talk about death and not having long to be around may be a fact for some, but I always want to have hope... I always want to have something to look forward to. Being "the new girl" relatively, I haven't really been able to figure out if some folks are just joking in their own way or if there's actually some cries for help with depression. Thank you for bringing this up, @fuzzybuddy
I feel too old to protest anymore. It feels like a lot of the changes today's young people are demanding un-does the changes we fought for, and actually takes us in the opposite direction. The upside of that is there's as much resistance to change today as there was in the 60s.
I dunno. To me, it seems like the posts are kind of cranky and not hopeful?????
Okay, good... then I did indeed understand what you meant. And yes, I've noticed. @fuzzybuddy
I no longer have the energy to participate in politics and I too feel some of the progress of the 60s is being undone. The integration we strived for has been replaced with disintegration into tribalism, where each tribe is concerned only with themselves. A community used to be a city or small town trying to provide for all its citizens. Now a community is a tribe. We have communities of Asians, Muslims, African Americans, and so on. Integration has become disintegration and community has become disunity. A country needs unity to provide for the needs of all its citizens.
Since death is inevitable for everybody, it seems there would be more discussion about it instead of less. Seniors in their 60s who can’t face their own mortality don’t want the elderly in their 80s to discuss death. They want the elderly to die in a 5K run while taking their vitamins, rather than at home in their recliner. But you’re just as dead either way. And I think the elderly have earned the right to their recliners.
You are still being an inspiration, taking a great adventure, settling in a new city, most of us do not have that courage and drive.
Yeah, somehow integration/assimilation has become an attack on people's culture. Where did this narrow view come from? How did everyone forget that people's cultures are honored even after they become members of general society? Maybe they don't know they can be an American without having to be American. Know what I mean?
Lol! I know exactly what you mean. In my regional area we have a number of morning news shows and that's usually when I watch the news. The local channel does a little news, traffic and weather then is mostly local fluff with a lot of joking around in between segments. It's not as heavy and depressing as the big national news channels. Heck, they even still run a Birthday segment where people send in pics of their loved ones who are having BD's that day! Not many news outlets doing that these days
I know there are some really loud haters and crazies, but, in my own experiences in the past several years, people I've been around at work and then while traveling, and now in this retirement community, all these people seem to be much more tolerant and respectful of differences than when I was young. And I can't even remember the last time anyone used a racial or ethnic slur type of word. I guess things have gotten so much better that is why the nasty people are so hysterical now.
