Glee Gone Wild

Seniors don’t get much respect; and I think one reason is because some of them can’t shut the hell up and sit down. I can talk about old farts, because I’m 67 and regaining respect for the aging process is one of the purposes of this blog.

Aging is a harrowing experience – filled with sinister epiphanies and morbid insights; it is clarifying and cleansing and cathartic – if properly lived. The desire to cling to life – even lives not worth living, is a signature stereotype of oldsters. Very few have the courage to overdose once they see that life is not worth living for them.

I understand that rap, and nudism, and violence, and degeneracy are pervasive; and, at face validity they appear to be degrading our morals and values…a descent into social chaos. We are all appalled by the changes evoked by each new generation of humans; most appearing to be a devolution of our humanity.

But for God’s sake quit whining every time some teenager chooses to pose nude or seminude on a magazine cover or within an article. Kids are rutting like stoats at age 13; you remember 13 – in your era men were marrying girls that age and younger; sometimes girls they were related to.

Moral outrage makes old people seem like subhuman zombies; the living dead screaming about Jesus and the poor children that are being used by the cruel media. Shut the fuck up! Go pray or something. Play some shuffleboard or work in the garden or gum your food. If you can’t contribute something besides outrage – because it ain’t like it used to be, keep quiet.

Some of us are trying to grow old and maintain our humanity. Most of you don’t know what the fuck is going on in the world anyway. You see everything through a distorted lens of outdated standards and self-serving mores. It’s bad enough that you elect every brain dead politician that can spout platitudes and vomit hypocritical clap-trap about how much he loves Jesus while he cuts off your Medicare and serves the rich.

The media stirs you up; the media loves to hyperbolize the antics of celebrities. The media lives by the feud; they love to stir the pot and will do or say anything to create outraged readers. And no strata of our society is as quick to outrage as the senior set.

The war fought by your generation that saved the world has been over for 65 years; yet you continue to vote for morons who send young men to die to support the military-industrial complex. You wanted to kill young students that protested the Vietnam War and you whine about the anti-Americanism of anyone who does not support our presence in Iraq.

Nudity is the least of this world’s problems. War mongers in suits waving the Bible and the American flag are what you should be worried about.