Fellow elders, let’s do this
How To Agitate Young People
Now is when they need us right in their faces
I’m a live-and-let-live kind of person. But not so much right now
As I write this there are nine days to the most consequential U.S. presidential election in my (reasonably long) lifetime.
I’ve avoided writing about it, but the elephant has grown so big and unruly that the living room has little space left to get around it. And to paraphrase Oscar Hammerstein II, the stakes are as high as that elephant’s eye.
Having threescore-and-ten under my belt confers an ability that some of the younger passengers on Spaceship Earth have yet to discover: I can see what’s coming.
Or rather, experience has taught me what to expect from what we can all see if we choose to look. The Young, if they happen to look up from their phones and regard the tunnel of their near future, are perfectly capable of seeing the light heading toward them. They just don’t comprehend its nature.
Cool, they think. Wonder what that . . . <phone burbles, instantly jerking them back to Screen World>.
It’s up to folks like me — and you, if you’re of an age — to point out: those lights you see at…
