- …..he’s part of the past; they’re part of the future. He’s yesterday’s stale news; they’re tomorrow’s bold headlines. His body is failing piece by piece; theirs are young and limber and nubile. So I ask of you then: Who would YOU focus the lion’s share of your attention on now??? Him or them??? Where should your instinctive priorities lie??? Why is honoring the past more important than struggling valiantly to ensure a better future for your own descendants??? All valid questions—these—and short of an honest, logical answer (and obviously there is none) volleyed back by you, I will continue to respect my transcendent responsibility to mankind by riding the arrow of time forward rather than setting my feet hard in the dirt, sticking my head in the sand akin to a befuddled ostrich, and thereupon subserving some weird paradox by struggling to crawl backwards against the will and nature of time. That course of action makes no sense, no sense at all!! Give me one good reason why the past—and not the future— should be deserving of idolatry?! There is none. Nor does it feel right deep down in one’s gut either. But for those of you superannuated geriatrics (along with any others) who vehemently insist on doing this, of honoring the past at the expense of the present and, more importantly, the future, I can only offer you these few choice words of “encouragement”: FUCK YOU!!!!! Yeah, fuck you all the way to perdition and beyond!!!!! That is ALL you are deserving of today, which is probably way too much anyway!!! Prioritizing the past over the future is just about the most selfish thing any sentient person could ever do, and I wish no good intentions to any misguided individual who consistently insists on committing this cardinal sin at the expense of today’s youth…..
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