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Early Renaissance / Sandro Botticelli/ Venus and MarsI guess that today was the first day that winter began announcing it's coming this year. Can't really say that I am interested in it's arrival. I am too old and cranky to be happy about such advents.
I am kind of bothered about the way that the discussion of money is going. Not because of the comments or opinions or the goals or the methods. Naw, that kind of thing traces back to the person. Everyone feels that whatever they have decided that they need/want is worthy of anything to achieve such. The trouble with money and wealth is that what it takes to make it and keep it is what becomes moral and good because it fits one's goals.
All of America and a great deal of Europe has expectations that they feel to be righteous. They will do nearly anything that will fill their chosen goal's needs. What they don't seem to address it their expectations or the costs of those goals.
Most of these expectations revolve around "a comfortable old-age". Now this simple little phrase sure comes loaded. Just what the fuck constitutes "comfortable"? And who the fuck says that you get off the hook from the world just because you are old? The crisis we are entering revolves around just those two questions. Truth be told, the entire finance industry is loaded to hunt just that bear.
I have spent a lot of time (I would argue too much) and spent too much time in books that discussed the period prior to 1900 CE to hold fast the idea that old people get a pass. I have spent too much time in backwoods Asian villages and in pre-1960 Utah truck farms to believe for a moment that old people can't contribute. That is just a bald-faced lie. I remember my 80+ year old grandfather spending a day wrapping up all the twine that I brought in from the bean patch into footballs for use the next year. He fed the dry stock every day, plugging away at the task, probably taking two to three times as long as an efficient "worker" would take, but he managed to get it all done. There was never any thought that he should take it easy, there was always the expectation that the old could contribute as much as they could, because everyone else was certainly doing the same.
Here in the West, and especially here in the US, we have the idea that the old shouldn't work and the young shouldn't be a part of their life. Old people are to be put away where they can be conveniently ignored when desired. Add this to the "Cult of the Child" where we pay lip service to providing children everything their little hearts could desire gives us the "moral" cover for doing anything to save up the money needed to perpetuate this one way generational street. We have pretty much systematically excluded the old in our day to day lives. It really isn't because we worship the young, that has always been a lame excuse.
All of this is tied back into the simple fact that we don't want to see what we will become. The old want to give up because we have created a society where they are of no use. Children are used as markers for the future against the inevitability of our mortality. The "adults" scramble away as slaves to the system that allows them these fever dreams. None of those wishes are the wishes of adults.
Money is the way that these malformed wishes are executed.
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