Degringolade

Arty Farty

One of the problems with getting old is that cultural references go out of fashion so very quickly (at least in the said old guys mind)

Truth of Consequences was the name of a stupid television show designed to kill time for bored suburban housewives and kids staying home from school due to illness or fakery.  

I think that this year’s election and the nauseatingly puerile “debate” between the two factions are the consequences we are going to have to endure for the actions and the directions that the overall culture has taken over the years.  Not that any of the actions were done as an outgrowth of evil, but rather, they were done for the best of reasons in my mind.  Things like acceptance and personal freedom.  Good things in other words.

But as one gets to be a geezer, one begins to realize that every decision has both negative and positive aspects.  An idea, let loose in a society/culture will inevitably show all sides of the issue and all consequences of the decision.  That is the nature of decisions.

Being a geezer, I naturally tend to think that it will all fall down.  I have to steer away from that kind of thought.  It is going to be different, times are going to change, but that doesn’t mean that it will be good or bad, it will just be different.