Written by Frederica
Many of us will have experience in looking after older relatives at some time in our lives. We will watch our parents (or even our partners in life) ageing before our eyes. We do not really give any thought to the fact that we, in our turn, will also age. We think that because our minds and faculties are still in full working order that life will continue along that peaceful plateau for a long time to come. Until … one day …:
Who is this person looking out of my mirror
It cannot be me I am twenty years old
The person I see has seen decades pass by
Those eyes seem to speak of a lifetime remembered
Their depths carry knowledge time only can buy
There’s a bit more in the middle but I will keep it short:
My span has been brief my life’s work lies before me
I hope I will make good use of my time
So that when I must own this face now before me
I will brave the last judgement with head held high
There comes a time for us all when ‘where shall we go today’ on those carefree days of holidays or at weekends suddenly come to an end due to ill health or infirmity. Then there is often dependency upon others to do the things that we can no longer do for ourselves. It is galling to find that the mind is still active and alive when the body becomes less compliant with our wishes.
Over the years, there has been a growing lack of respect for ‘age’. Despite the insistence of governments that they ‘care’ and the setting up of agencies to help, advise and mitigate the effects of ageing, there has arisen an indefinable feeling that ageing is somehow shameful. The days when older people were looked up to for their knowledge and wisdom and their life stories were listened to with genuine interest are gone.
This seems synonymous with the escalating intent to stifle history and the wealth of erudition and philosophy that history imparts to mankind. Unless, of course, history may be used for political purposes to denigrate times past and bring down the memories and achievements of those who lived back then. The ‘woke’ generation has set out to drive a steamroller though anything from the past thus implying that ‘old’ is to be condemned. Life is now only for the young who seem to have no consciousness or care for the imbalances that they are creating for future generations.
The stories of ‘care home’ abuse that should engender huge outrage, shock and condemnation are simply another form of the ‘nine day’s wonders’ that merely elicit a ‘lessons will be learned’ response from an uncaring Establishment.
Thus, the recent experience of the elderly being shipped out of hospitals into care homes, regardless of whether they would be at risk from the COVID virus or not, was just another exposition of the disregard for the dignity of the aged. The elderly are deemed to be expendable. No doubt because they are considered to be too expensive to maintain i.e. payment of pensions and cost of care, medical treatments etc. Not that the Health Service is now anything more than a lottery for the elderly. Even getting through to a doctor carries odds almost as great as winning a Sweepstake.
There is no longer any respect for the years of toil, struggle and fortitude displayed throughout most older people’s lives as they have worked to maintain themselves and their own families. The elderly are seen as a nuisance, a stumbling block to the political plans for a new era of serfdom – because the elderly remember life as it was lived. Before the ‘terror’ was visited upon us, when decency, dignity and diligence were the passport to an independent life. A time when work and thrift enabled one to exist without fear of overweening political influence in one’s daily round.
Recently there was a television series entitled ‘Care Homes for Four Year Olds’. It was of great interest because it displayed, very strongly, that the interaction between young and old can be beneficial for all! Even if the Covid ‘terror’ had not appeared, I do not think that it will ever be something that will be encouraged long term. For one thing, the reprehensible way in which education of the very young is tending more toward inappropriate indoctrination would be severely stymied by allowing the very young to be exposed to the wisdom and experience of the very old.
Yet, I believe that in an honest and well regulated society the older generation could have a very beneficial effect on the education of the very young. The older generation had a far more broad-based, life-skills accented education. They also remember a time when children could roam freely without fear of molestation. They remember the time when crime was suitably and effectively punished. In those days foreign criminals were not permitted free-rein while being protected from deportation by partisan lawyers.
In past societies, where family groups lived within easy distance of each other, grandparents often had great input and influence on the lives of their grandchildren (and great-grandchildren) to very good effect!
But in this rapidly ‘declining into dystopia’ life, the desire for total control by ‘Big State’ over all lives by keeping everyone separate from another, the very beneficial effects of family life are being strongly discouraged. Politicians, whose own lives are amongst the most privileged and pampered in society will probably never know anything approaching the want and dependency of many older people today. In exposing the very old and ill to the dangers of the ‘experimental gene therapy’, politicians are guilty of abuse of the elderly. For a substance that has not yet reached the end of the phase three trials period to be pumped indiscriminately into the elderly is unforgivable.
Therefore I conclude that the 21st century will not go down in the annals of history (assuming that history will still be allowed to be recorded!) as an age of ‘enlightenment’. On the contrary it will be remembered as an age of repression and darkness.
I am reminded of a quotation from Jude the Obscure where the eldest son hanged his brothers and sisters and then himself, leaving a note saying “Because we are too many”. His parents had found themselves hard pressed to feed and clothe their large brood. Is that how the politically insane class, which is visiting dystopia upon the World, views the population in general and the elderly in particular?
Jacques Attali, advisor to François Mitterrand and first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, said, in 1981:
“The future will be about finding a way to reduce the population. We start with the old, because as soon as they exceed 60-65 years, people live longer than they produce and that costs society dearly. Then the weak, then the useless that do not help society because there will always be more of them, and above all, ultimately, the stupid.”
“Euthanasia will have to be an essential tool in our future societies, in all cases. Of course we will not be able to execute people or build camps.”
“We will find or cause something a pandemic targeting certain people, a real economic crisis or not, a virus affecting the old or the fat, it doesn’t matter, the weak will succumb to it, the fearful and stupid will believe in it and seek treatment. We will have made sure that treatment is in place, treatment that will be the solution. The selection of idiots then takes care of itself: You go to the slaughter by yourself.”
We live the safest most comfortable lives in history; we have lost sight that there will always be evil people, even when they do not hide it. As Dr Vernon Coleman has written, this pandemic has been decades in the making.
We will have made sure that treatment is in place, treatment that will be the solution. The selection of idiots then takes care of itself: You go to the slaughter by yourself.”
Exactly
I’ve been feeling for a while now, well I’m going to die sooner or later, we all do. All this ‘stuff’ I’ve collected round me will just be binned. Destroyed. So be it.
But there is also so much in my mind. Knowledge, intelligence, ‘sense’ if you like. Surely that should not just go to waste.
Some might accuse me of being arrogant to think the ‘I’ am so wonderful.
I’ve just finished reading Brave New World and I suspect what I have been experiencing is the same message as Huxley’s savage is telling.
In that dystopia every last atom of matter is saved for reuse as the dead are cremated. But what of the ‘Spirit’ the ‘Soul’.
That never developed in the inmates of the ‘Stable Society’, but it did in the Savage.
Brave New World is fiction of course and I found it more depressing even than 1984. So I’m taking refuge in hope that religion and life after death in some form is true.
Incidentally, the tower where the savage takes refuge and finally hangs himself is the folly on the top of Leith hill in Surrey. I’ve worked it out from the clues Huxley gives in the book and from where he spent part of his life. I know now that I read the book in my early teens and remember cycling from my childhood home to Leith hill and climbing that tower.
Pauline feeling as you do you should write down everything you can about your life as you were growing up. You already mention cycling to Leith Hill so you obviously have memories that are well worth preserving for the future. Find someone to leave it to who will keep it and appreciate it. There may well come a time when all these singular memories will be needed to re-work the tapestry of a history that is in danger of being obliterated by the ones who feel that the present (in whatever form they decide it will be) is the only record that will be permitted.
I met an elderly lady at the bus stop one day. The bus was late and we got chatting. She told me about her life. It was so interesting I wished I had been able to record it. I begged her to go home and write it down. I often wonder whether she did!
I have wondered about writing the story of my life Frederica. Not so much my childhood, which is mainly a case of parents being ill matched and my mother being domineering. The way my life unfolded as a result of the childhood and how my brother led his life is more ‘important’.
But it is not really important to anyone else and I’ve not contributed anything to history. Actually I’ve not even observed closely how that history has unfolded. I’ve not observed it closely and consistently until relatively recently. In that sense I really have very little of value to contribute.
The philosophy I read for my degree is on my bookshelves. What I got from it is in my head but what others got from the same works has been recorded by them. As have the original works been recorded. The ‘history’ has also been recorded.
I agree with you that there is far too much rewriting of it all, going on. I feel it is a tragedy coming to pass in front of my eyes but there is nothing I can do to stop it or to save anything of value.
Hey-up. A friend has just visited. Older than me and far less introspective. According to him, ‘Everybody’ is ‘Rebellious’ about all the freedoms we have lost due to the Covid19 dictatorship. EVERYBODY is cross because the things they want to do they are prevented from doing, or it is made difficult.
Perhaps there is hope the silent majority will win.
Enjoyable and thought provoking Frederica, thank you. The social changes are reflected elsewhere in the Western world.
The growth of the state after WW2 – socialists successfully pursued it to futher socialist ideology, Tories grudgingly went along with with it to retain their electibility to power – may have laid the framework to the collapse of the traditional family, localism, self-reliance etc.
We have now reached the point where the state is too big to fail, needing more and more tax payers money to keep it afloat. A huge army of public sector workers (and private sector contractors) depend on perpetuating the myth that ‘the state knows best’.
Thankyou Jake. I agree with your comment 100%. The thing is that Big State will soon find itself running out of money with too few taxpayers earning enough to keep it going. They can only print money for so long before hyperinflation takes over and either food shortages or people not having enough money to buy anything to eat will cause Armageddon! I’m not so much worried for myself or my age group. We have lived our lives in what I consider to be the best times. I am concerned now for my children and my children’s children. What dire future has been created for them by all those global-minded, self-interested, evil b@$t@rd$! (I am not normally given to using questionable language online but…….!)
Indeed Frederica; a valid concern. The best that we can do for our descendants is to deal with those “evil b@$t@rd$! ” using any and all available means.
Well Frederica, not surprising when you consider the situation that the Western World is in. We’ve allowed our population to explode due to mass immigration at a time when our industry has been off-shored, the numbers don’t add up.
Governments have mismanaged our economy to such an extent that shortly we’ll enter a crippling financial and economic crisis the like of which we older folk won’t see the end of. To make ends meet our governments have raided pension funds, many older people will face retirement without the pensions that they worked so hard all of the their lives for.
Agenda 21/2030 is a globalist plan that treats people like cattle and we all know what happens to cattle as they get older and unprofitable to keep alive: they are slaughtered.
There is no way that Western governments can afford to keep older, retired people alive, particularly as soon Artificial Intelligence will soon make many millions of younger people redundant.
Like cattle, our globalist governments want us oldies dead. I have long since given up any hope of expecting any kind of hope that our government will act in our interests.
I agree Flyer but really….was it ‘we’ who allowed our population to explode? I am not so sure! Many of us have been arguing for long that th numbers were rising to fast for comfort. Migration Watch has been warning of this for years. Our fault lies in keep voting for ‘more of the same’≥. I admit that many have been brainwashed by the propaganda that has been spewed out for the last several decades. To call it ‘Spin’ is a euphemism of outstanding proportion! Lies, damn lies and Politics! (Yes I know it’s really ‘Statistics’!!!) All of a piece really especially since the advent of Alistair Campbell and his devil’s archdeacon master!
I’m certain sure thats why they were so keen to test out that devils brew on the old! It was almost a dead cert to dispose of quite a few more that hadn’t already succumbed to the COVID (on top of their other health issues) in care homes!
Artificial intelligence might serve the purpose of the globalists for a while but eventually I think the whole thing will be self-defeating. The whole system will implode! Nature will take its course sooner or later. It always stirs my blood pressure to read on one hand that Pearly Gates thinks the World is over populated and then see all those adverts from charities begging for money to help the sick and needy in the Third World! (I don’t see them now of course because I’ve stopped watching TV!) You cant have it both ways. Which is correct? Save everybody or let nature take its course? Through time immemorial Mother Nature has worked her balancing act to keep the population in check. (Is that why ‘they’ are so keen to discount Darwinism?) It seems to me that all those NWO freaks are not all that bright really! Sooner or later they are going to end up with the balance going the other way. Then I wonder…..will they fall victim to the AI robots that they create. Will the robots takeover and exterminate them? Oh I do hope so!!!!
Nature always wins Frederica. Yes it does. Trouble is it doesn’t happen just when you want it to!
That’s a lovely idea about the robots and A.I. exterminating the ruling class of globalists. Why wouldn’t they? They’ve been programmed to exterminate with no ‘conscience’.
Ha! Ha! Pauline. Yes just like the Daleks! “Exterminate! Exterminate!”
Flyer Why would you expect a government to act in our interests? The agencies and individuals of Government/state act in their own interests and those of their sponsors/donors. Ask anyone on the liberal Left, they know how the system works better than those on the centre right who fall for any tosh they are told by the political establishment.