"You are old, Father William, yet you incessantly stand on your head. Do you think, at your age, that is right?
In my youth, Father William replied to his son, I feared it might injure the brain, but now that I'm sure I have none, I do it again and again."
Most civilizations of the world use’ta venerate their elders…the feeling wuz that they had somehow managed to traverse the rutted ’n dangerous roads of life ’n therefore, prob’ly had a pretty good take on the pitfalls of life ’n how to avoid them…
‘Course, not all civilizations have felt that way…for example there were a number of Native American Tribes (I call them Native Americans even tho’ they migrated here from other lands just like ever'body else 'cept they got here before my own ancestors) that when a member of the family got too old to take care of him or herself ’n wuz gonna require someone else to hunt ’n gather for them, the custom wuz to abandon them to their fate…they simply went off ’n left them…they didn’t seem to go in much for mercy killing back then as some of our more enlightened citizens of today are championing…Ezekiel Emmanuel, for example, one of the architects of Obamacare has stated publically that 75 years is a prime age for euthanasia ’n allowing anyone to live past that age is an unnecessary drain on the resources of the rest of the population…(since I’m already two years past that, y’can see why I might not agree with him on that position)...
Now, I’ve been told a couple times lately (by different people in different ways) that my opinion didn’t count for much becuz I ‘wuz old ’n irrelevant’…One of the people who told me that wuz my granddaughter who claimed that she wuz ‘just joking, Grandpa’…I didn’t pay any attention to her becuz once upon a time I, too, wuz 18 years old ’n knew ever’thing…
Another one, a young whippersnapper of my acquaintance wuz pontificating on his theory that the USA, under the closet Jew, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had intentionally provoked Japan into the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor so that he, FDR, could then make a Declaration of War to aid his friend ’n ally, Winston Churchill…
He went on to say, in a rather condescending manner, that in his opinion, the Japanese were probably the bravest ’n most valiant soldiers we had ever faced, how man for man, they were superior warriors, prob’ly the best in the world...
When I disagreed with him, ’n pointed out that I had lived thru the time he wuz talking about, he ’n his fellow conspiracy theorists opined that I wuz old ’n hadn’t the advantage of a modern education ’n probably learned my history from Time-Life ’n Hollywood movies ’n that, well, I wuz basically irrelevant...
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.”
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