If he wasn’t good enough for the past, he sure as hell ain’t good enough for the present. The present is more complicated and challenging and multifaceted than the past ever was, ergo if he wasn’t capable of clearing the modest height the bar was set at “back then” then he conclusively isn’t up to the task in today’s faster-paced world. If ya weren’t good enough when you were younger and more athletic and more robust and more virile and your brain was undeniably more plastic, why in God’s name would you think you are more capable today? Huh?! That was a rhetorical question, by the way, and if you didn’t realize something so simple the answer is a resounding “You ain’t better at doing anything once you pass the age threshold of sixty, You Vain Dipshit, other than shitting your pants and misplacing your reading glasses and forgetting when to take your mini-arsenal of medications!” Thus please (And I’m only feigning politeness here as a tribute to propriety) do NOT pretend otherwise and masquerade as some sort of dynamic leader who is indispensable to humanity’s well-being. Your ship sailed long ago even if you forgot to book passage on it.
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