The above title isn’t some sort of click bait. I don’t get clicks. It is simply how I feel and what I believe. In this case, I also happen to be right.
The United States has experienced few times without turmoil and acting upon fiendish desires. We began the country with genocide against the first world tribes. For more than a third of our existence we continued with the worst of humanity’s curses, slavery. More recently we have abused underdeveloped countries robbing their resources and taking advantage of their cheap labor.
I guess it should come as no surprise we have entered another age of evil. Like usual, this one is fueled by greed. Except the greed this time is different. We can no longer steal land and everything else from the first world tribes, because we have taken it all already. Slavery is illegal, at least officially. Third world countries have woken up and grown stronger and will have to be conquered for us to steal their resources.
But since the rich only get greedier, this time the victim will be us, their own countrymen.
After WWII America had a peak of unity, a unity which we have lost. Companies gave bonuses, landlords charged something closer to what people could handle, and services were affordable. These have all but disappeared. Over the past ten years many rents have doubled, most food has, and every business who can is outsourcing middle class and factory jobs to AI any chance they get.
Nothing has become more important than accumulating cash and attempting to be one of the few who gets to live large and once a person starts down this road there is never enough. We have become the sheep in Animal Farm, but instead of the farmer leaving, he has moved us into a pit and cut our feed in half so he can put a new pool in his fourth vacation home.
Why I blame the ‘Greatest,’ and Boomer Generation for Bringing Us Here
After the constant need for international conflict died down in the mid seventies, the United States tried to clean up and cement its reputation. It passed the Civil Rights laws, approved more right for women, including abortion, environmental protections were enforced and for a while the Untied States was a good place to be. If nothing else at least you knew we were trying.
Something else was happening as well. All the wealth taken from underdeveloped countries mixed with the vast resources still left from what the Europeans took from the first nation people let a whole generation live better than any people who walked the Earth had ever lived before. Great wealth met minuscule prices in a perfect storm of prosperity. College was a few hundred dollars a semester. Two story houses cost little over ten grand.
It was big fat pie and almost everyone got a slice.
Almost anyone could be a home owner. More people went to college than ever before. A few decades later those twenty thousand dollar houses would be worth thirty times as much and those owning property of any kind could write their own ticket.
But something else happened as well. The oh so ‘Greatest’ and the Boomer generations began to feel they must be special. No one had ever done as well as them and, from the looks of things no one else would ever come close. Gen X couldn’t do it on a scale even close to their parents and grandparents. And millennials were working two jobs just to be able to share an apartment with roommates and wouldn’t pay off their student loans until they were a few decades older than when their grandparents bought their first home.
They couldn’t pull off what the Greatest/Boomers had done. They weren’t even in the same field. This began to make the pre Gen Xers feel like they did it all better than everyone, were better than everyone, probably deserved more than anyone. Gone was the desire to protect the Earth. They saw people richer than them and wondered how they could match the levels of wealth they witnessed.
Not everyone would be able to make it. Things would need to be cut. Animal rights, the environment, worker’s rights, and fair wages. If people wanted health care they should have worked harder to get a job where it would be easy to afford. Greed overrode the animals, the planet, and their fellow man. No other generation would ever be the same or as worthy as them. They deserved what their genius has bestowed on them. They would take it and everything else.
If other countries were waking up, they would just rob from their own. Nothing was as important as getting more. They would lie, cheat, steal, plunder and then do it all again next week. Their God had turned away from the teaching of their prophet and embraced the Prosperity Gospel. Their only prophet was profit. Your worth was determined by your bank account. Rich people were more important. Rich children more valuable. They were smart enough to make all this money so who else would be smart enough to lead? Who else deserved…was entitled to getting their way?
America has been destroyed by the Boomers with the help of the ‘Greatest.’ They took something that was running well, stole all the parts and left the husk of the vehicle which can’t go anywhere.
Gas prices, inflation, rental costs, what do they care when with a good accountant they barely have to pay their fair share of taxes. Cut services and health care so the outdated, fossils, who make billions off their outdated fossil fuels, can once again steal from other countries. They have forced money which could be used to help Americans to pay for war and death so the billionaires can make more while killing the planet in the process.
Maybe you have a different opinion, but I see a few generations which had things better than any of us will ever see. They took their luck and then just kept taking and taking. Greed replaced empathy, humanity, and good will, all the while throwing the environment under the bulldozer.
They are the people in charge. They could have embraced green energy, but they didn’t. They could have used all the money they wasted on wars supporting the dying fossil fuel system on supporting the Earth and its people, but they didn’t. For the price of our wars in Iraq the government could have put free solar energy on every home, apartment, and business in the United States, but they didn’t. They could have let women keep their rights but they didn’t. You could have led the way in protecting the environment but you didn’t.
So yeah, great job taking it, hoarding it, and then ruining it. The final grade is coming due and as far as I see it. You got an F.
Maybe when you are gone the rest of us will have a chance to try to start over, but because of you, it might be too late.
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