@JamesMelville I feel seen. My thoughts exactly.
Also hate how actual physical money is being made obsolete, with many businesses moving to card and app only payments even though this must be costing them more??
@supersaisonic@kolobcreative@Glinner It’s a brilliant read, I’d thoroughly recommend it. It wasn’t on the shelves in mainstream booksellers , they had it hidden away like some sort of dirty secret .. ffs
@Cheriewingfiel1@DreyfusJames I feel the same , I couldn’t read all the newspaper reports or watch the tv news coverage as it made me physically sick.
It’s beyond heartbreaking.
Monsters, how can anyone do something so evil.
When I was a child and young adult I never blamed my Grandparents, or Parents, because our council house had no indoor toilet, or a bathroom. I did not blame them for the secondhand clothes or furniture. I thanked them for hot meals, for the love they gave me.
My Gran was a public toilet attendant, she worked in to her 70s because she had not paid enough stamp (whilst she lived with Grandad, they never married). My Grandad worked also in to his 70s, he worked on the motorways, building new ones. Both were so broken through work they never managed to live to 80.
Both my parents also worked hard, often both holding down multiple jobs, just to raise my siblings and I, no foreign holidays, at best a day trip to Margate.
I don’t blame my previous generations for anything, they worked hard to make my life the best it could be. They taught me nothing in life is free, you work hard, you contribute.
I don’t deny any pensioner anything, I am only here today because of all they did yesterday! I despair at those who live a life of perpetual blame, rather than accept they can now shape the future so it is even better for everyone, where the elderly get the respect they actually deserve.
We live in a commoditised society, where nothing has true value, including the old!
@iam_jlc What about They Live? I remember loving that film and watching it multiple times, think it starred Roddy piper the wrestler??
It’s been years since I saw it though, so I may be wrong.!