{"id":655,"date":"2018-11-11T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=655"},"modified":"2018-11-11T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T11:46:32","slug":"sunday-musings-stupid-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/sunday-musings-stupid-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Musings: Stupid People"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" style=\"width: 718px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/45878960_114397776232210_5078269335361814528_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/45878960_114397776232210_5078269335361814528_n.jpg\" alt=\"Alexandia Occasio-Cortez\" width=\"718\" height=\"397\" class=\"size-full wp-image-654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/45878960_114397776232210_5078269335361814528_n.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/45878960_114397776232210_5078269335361814528_n-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Politics are about to become a whole lot funnier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I was a teen, I was a volunteer at the <strong>Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Center<\/strong> in Brooklyn. We helped the elderly with food deliveries, help shopping, clean, deliver things. Make their lives easier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I was very disappointed in the lack of wisdom my elders had.<\/strong> You watch any TV show, and a wise old geezer appears and says the one magical thing to give our hero a second change to win. Real life? PHHHLLLPPPH! They were just basic meat and potatoes kinds of people. Their whole life was: Wake up, go to work, come home, have dinner, fall asleep watching Johnny Carson. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>No real gems to pass on to the next generation. Nothing to explain how life works, or the complexities of Human Nature, not even an explanation of why the drive-thru ATM buttons have braille on them.<\/p>\n<p>One of them did advise me to &#8220;not get old&#8221;. Did I listen? NOOOOOoooooo&#8230;. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now I see people my age, middle aged, rapidly approaching seniors,<\/strong> and they are passing on tweets from some Millenial Tumblrina as if she has all the answers, but she&#8217;s just mad at her daddy, and the woman forwarding it with &#8220;So much this!&#8221; added is just a bitter spinster mad that her husband left her for a younger version of herself. She thinks because she is young, she has her fingers on the pulse on the future, as if we are entering a new Age of Enlightenment.  It&#8217;s just a ridiculously over-sensitive time. <\/p>\n<p><strong>We are trying to appear &#8220;progressive&#8221; and &#8220;open-minded&#8221; about issues<\/strong> like 57 genders, paying a carbon tax when you ALREADY pay taxes to live in the an Industrialized Society, fighting for the rights of Transgenders to pee in the stall next someone&#8217;s young daughter, when none of them asked for this as far as I know of. In fact, none of the transgender people I know in real life ever seemed to have an issue with finding a public bathroom to use. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile those guys, that sported mascara and fishnets on college campuses three years ago, are now clean-cut, married, expecting their first kid and saying &#8220;OMG, GUYS! It was college and I was going through a phase!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Life&#8217;s lessons never seem to touch certain people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All the world&#8217;s knowledge is just a few taps away on their smartphones, yet we still have people that think the world is flat, afraid to vaccinate their kids, and think Lizards have enslaved the Human Race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So I&#8217;m thinking maybe stupid kids, turn into stupid adults, and then stupid old people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;d have thought?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got to think about stupid people. 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