Boomer here. I learned in some previous lifetime what constituted a healthy civilization (not ours), and did my best to opt out of the "I'm the best, the only one, the essential one" self-importance trap, have been doing my Taoist best for a long time. Aimed for debt free status, I did. True, I have too many rare books on occult and esoteric subjects that I can't find folks to give them to, probably my main indulgence, besides many meditation retreats when unemployed, which was often. At six or so, I saw suburbanisms as the waste they were, etc.
So it's arguable that not entirely everyone wasted your seed corn. I feel your anger. I wasted plenty of other things, but was always downwardly mobile. I avoided the rush. Made me an outcaste among my peers and my family. However, the few boomers I meet these days are in a similar condition. I hope to pass away before giving you youngsters any more trouble. Never wanted to outstay my welcome anywhere, which makes for a lonely time if you are an autistic esotericist. Be well. Be strong. Be blessed.
Thanks for the comment Clarke. As a GenXer it was easier for me to slip into the pariah role since I grew up with The Matrix themes, industrial music, and a standard of life that was clearly in decline. The pressure for you to conform must have been immense and I salute you for sticking to your principles. I also appreciate the fact that you are not one of those people who jacked the rent just because you were “thinking of a higher number“.
There are very, very inexpensive musical instruments crowding out the space in Philadelphia pawn shops right now. Go in with a few hundred dollars cash and some friends to help you carry stuff out.
The flipside is that I have two other boomer family members that just wasted all their money running about the place being new age idiots and abandoning all their children. Now they are in their early 80s... and are basically abandoned by their children, broke and living in a state of terror.
Loved that. Currently grinding it on my leather ass while all my familys wealth and land in concentrated in one insane boomer. and locked up in a multi million dollar trust. This boomer like to hint at giving us the info about it - to the point where we all flew to NZ to learn about the trust. Then they didn't bring it up the whole time.
We flew out of there after an expensive "Holiday" quite angry about it all...
A few weeks later the boomer got stung to shit by wasps on the property.
A week later down with the Quad Vaxed super flu....
Boomer here. I learned in some previous lifetime what constituted a healthy civilization (not ours), and did my best to opt out of the "I'm the best, the only one, the essential one" self-importance trap, have been doing my Taoist best for a long time. Aimed for debt free status, I did. True, I have too many rare books on occult and esoteric subjects that I can't find folks to give them to, probably my main indulgence, besides many meditation retreats when unemployed, which was often. At six or so, I saw suburbanisms as the waste they were, etc.
So it's arguable that not entirely everyone wasted your seed corn. I feel your anger. I wasted plenty of other things, but was always downwardly mobile. I avoided the rush. Made me an outcaste among my peers and my family. However, the few boomers I meet these days are in a similar condition. I hope to pass away before giving you youngsters any more trouble. Never wanted to outstay my welcome anywhere, which makes for a lonely time if you are an autistic esotericist. Be well. Be strong. Be blessed.
Thanks for the comment Clarke. As a GenXer it was easier for me to slip into the pariah role since I grew up with The Matrix themes, industrial music, and a standard of life that was clearly in decline. The pressure for you to conform must have been immense and I salute you for sticking to your principles. I also appreciate the fact that you are not one of those people who jacked the rent just because you were “thinking of a higher number“.
There are very, very inexpensive musical instruments crowding out the space in Philadelphia pawn shops right now. Go in with a few hundred dollars cash and some friends to help you carry stuff out.
This article is a tour de force. I am going to be quoting the absolute crap out of this. Thank you so much.
The flipside is that I have two other boomer family members that just wasted all their money running about the place being new age idiots and abandoning all their children. Now they are in their early 80s... and are basically abandoned by their children, broke and living in a state of terror.
Loved that. Currently grinding it on my leather ass while all my familys wealth and land in concentrated in one insane boomer. and locked up in a multi million dollar trust. This boomer like to hint at giving us the info about it - to the point where we all flew to NZ to learn about the trust. Then they didn't bring it up the whole time.
We flew out of there after an expensive "Holiday" quite angry about it all...
A few weeks later the boomer got stung to shit by wasps on the property.
A week later down with the Quad Vaxed super flu....
amazing stuff....