We're fucked for the foreseeable future...

[LiberalArkie]

15. I will be 67 next month. I thought the US would have overcome the racism I got beat for protesting.

I thought we would have a station on the moon at least maybe one on Mars also. I thought that the protests for women rights would meant both sexes would have been wearing at most only bottoms on the beaches (yea). I thought for sure that there would be world wide medical care and very inexpensive drugs (because after all it would be for the public welfare). I knew for sure that there would not be any poverty or hungry people anywhere in the world. I thought that crime would not exist any where because there would be no need to lie and steal any more.

I can not help it, I grew up with news programs that promoted the good and showed us the bad in the world. I grew up watching a program with Rachael Carlson describing what DDT was doing to the birds. DDT got banned. I grew up with Star Trek. I believed in the public good. You know there used to be things like public hospitals. The idea of improving the public wellbeing was something that was growing.

Being almost 67 and things being worse than what I grew up with and envisioned is very hard thing to handle.

I am almost ready to unplug all sources of news, and just pick up books and movies and start living in a fantasy world. I just can't see things improving in what is left in my life time. (although through numerous things happening to me, I have been proven to be hard to keep dead).

So I guess it is up to the kids to start dreaming of how it could have been any may still be.