We Should Stop Letting the Walking Dead Decide Our Future
We should not give any weight to the voice of anyone over 70 years of age in matters where time is crucial. They simply do not care. They will be dead. The opinion of someone already halfway gone on an issue that the rest of us will have to live through is seriously irrelevant.
Bill Gates, born in 1955, has just changed his stance on climate issues.
I've recently seen a few videos and read a study on the latest climate shifts caused by human activity. It’s wild.
The global temperature is rising. And we (not America, not India, perhaps not even China) are doing a fairly good job overall at slowing the rate of climate change, but nowhere near fast enough.
Simon Clark summed it up perfectly. We are doing a good job, but not fast enough. We are slowing the descent, but we need to push harder, faster, and with far more determination to actually stop the climb and start turning the curve back down. The work has begun, but the pace is nowhere near what survival demands.
Any policy that Trump currently supports is fundamentally stupid and blatantly anti-climate.
Trump, the American Twitter Toddler President, born in 1946 – yeah, that one.
Which brings me to the real point of this post.
Why are we letting people who are nearly gone shape the future for those who still have decades to live? That’s possibly the dumbest collective decision in human history. Sure, I’m not about to take advice from a 5-year-old on how to restructure the world – there are reasons why we have an age of consent and thresholds for responsibility. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to take guidance from someone who’s already living on borrowed time. That’s absurd.
Imagine running a company and taking strategic advice from a guy who’s already been fired, then restructuring your business around his outdated and destructive opinions. That’s idiotic.
If an issue doesn’t concern you because you won’t live to see its consequences, then your voice might carry ideas, but not value. You’re risking nothing. You won’t be around when the world burns, so you don’t care. You want comfort, legacy, or maybe a few more dollars for your family before you die – and that’s the real problem. NO MATTER WHAT.
Just look at Trump.
And so, I’ll say it plainly: the opinion of a 15-year-old is infinitely more valid than that of a senile 70-year-old walking corpse.
If we are talking about the future, we should speak of it as if we were actually going to live it.
I get it, maybe it won't affect us much as we currently live, but what about the generation after us?
We will die looking at the world burning and flooding with a smile of "haha, I lived the best time", but what about the kids? What about their kids? Are we really just going to destroy the world for a little joy? It's not like we cannot choose other things for joy that do not destroy the world.
And I have the same issue with the voting system. We don't allow people under a certain age to vote, but why do we allow people over a certain age to vote? That makes no sense, really. They will never choose the best option – the median will always fall to selfishness. Always. Why do we allow that?
We allow it only because the rules are being set by politicians who are ALSO VERY OLD and desperate for power and control. They are the same kind of selfish.
How are we supposed to make anything better if the state itself is controlled by the walking dead? From voting to the actual politics and the change that follows, everything is majorly dictated by the walking deceased.
That’s it. That’s my rant for today. Because sometimes the internet needs to hear when something is absolute, illogical bullshit – and I will give my take on it. I must. The world is where I live, and I plan to be here for another 30 years at least. After that, sure, I’ll mark myself as one of the walking dead.
It's all turning to a real
Idiocracy and I am baffled.
