One of the things spelling doom for this culture is the incredible laser-focus on SEX.
SEXSEXSEXSEXSEX. My gender, my sexual preference, my sex life, what I like, what I don't like, and how it makes me WHO I AM.
The measured average testosterone level in the American male is FIFTY PERCENT LOWER than a century ago, or even a generation ago, depending on what research you read. Even as the cultural SEX DRIVE approaches "ludicrous speed", the simple physical urge for it is DIMINISHING. Depending on the age of onset of Type II diabetes, the drive can disappear entirely (from men) as early as age 55.
Thirty years or more of life remains, during which it will be manifestly stupid and pointless to obsess on sex, but -- what else IS there? This generation of older folks will have been raised on and saturated with SEX the most important thing in life SEX my rights my prerogatives SEX the only thing that is important about ME!
In God's creation, sex is a matter for younger people. Wisdom accrues. Older people do OTHER THINGS; leadership, management, education, protection of the culture and the people in it.
But we live in a sex-addled culture, so much so that one of the most profitable lines of "medication" now is a pill that restores some measure of male sexual function which nature had (wisely) switched off. Trying to outsmart nature and God.
And it works... but... you STILL get older, and presumably less attractive. Harder to compete. And you still become elderly and DIE.
What things would you have been giving attention to, what lessons would you have learned, who might you have helped if you had not been so obsessed with making time stand still for yourself? What good things were you SUPPOSED to do that you did not and will not, and what young people will suffer because you did not lend your personal effort and force to the proper role of an older person?
You don't just "remain young"; you avoid and dodge the duty of growing old, and you reject the lessons and wisdom that come with it. Your usefulness as an old person is abandoned and ignored, and all your efforts to remain young are thwarted in the end.
You cannot add to your life. You can only choose to live it well, or poorly. Our culture is now programming young people to absolutely SUCK as older people, and all for nothing. For a wisp, for gas, for something that leaves you, on time, no matter how hard you try to hang onto it.
The next set of old people are going to be useless, and they'll know it, and they'll be miserable. Which will make EVERYONE miserable. They will have spent decades arguing for their own rights and choices, demanding others call them by the pronouns they CHOOSE instead of the ones that APPLY. Perhaps a sexy 27 year old can divert a few readers with sexual demands on the culture.
A 77 year old doing the same thing?
It is to laugh. To keep from crying.
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