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Old People ---- a Missing Understanding
    #26524039 - 03/08/20 02:33 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

I was wondering today about all the people in my life that have died and the way that I speak about them now. I give them a much better standing than they deserve in all cases. I point out only the goods and tiny bits of the bad.

It occurred to me that a lot of old people speak good of their loved ones. I wonder how much this is a "history is written by the victor" type situation and how much real information is being lost. I wonder what impacts it has on us as a society from a recurring bad theme standpoint.


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Re: Old People ---- a Missing Understanding [Re: Oldnameforgotten]
    #26524972 - 03/09/20 04:38 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Many young people have died too, now more than ever - I have never felt comfortable dissing any person who has past away. The main purpose of dissing is to consolidate your defenses against a threat that a person's behavior presents. In that way it is manipulative or motivational.

If a person alive or dead has done something to learn from, then being accurate makes the most sense. Honesty is the best policy.


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Re: Old People ---- a Missing Understanding [Re: Oldnameforgotten]
    #26525367 - 03/09/20 11:28 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

i agree with vine man, its important to be honest, if there is not much good to say about anyone in life there shouldn't be any reason say good things in passing. As long as you make sure everything you say is true not some rumour or something like that. Either way it is bad to talk about people who aren't around you anyway unless it is part of the topic which you have reason to converse in.

But some times these old fuckers really are nasty pieces of work, stubborn old fools, it's good to remember and preserve tradition but you need to know why first. Don't let it be one of those things you can't explain about yourself. Especially nowadays in the UK, the old boomers had the easiest lives they never saw any shortage in jobs, during their working years, all they ever saw was economic prosperity, they have the largest pensions out of anyone and still they are ungrateful sods who don't want to admit that they had things easy. They will claim that they worked hard in life and all their benefits and money is all hard earned and deserved. Now with their votes bringing us out the EU, they are destroying all the things that allowed them to prosper before they can allow us to prosper from them. Before we finally joined the EU, England was a shit hole, the poor man of Europe, now we are going straight back to those times.

But to be honest it all seems rather exciting to be honest, all this economic uncertainty, maybe life will get more interesting when depravity finally reaches the levels it used to be back in the day. It will be sickk havin raves and shit. Already drugs are getting cheaper and cheaper by the month. And councils are finding more and more bullshit reasons to tax and fine to collect money from the poor. The other day i got fined 80£ for dropping a cigarette butt on the floor in market street by the environmental enforcement agency. It looks like all this stress about saving the environment is only giving council excuses to find more ways of sapping money from my pocket.

All the old geezers in politics that's what it is.


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