Never a week passes without some new crisis or unspeakable violence. I was born in 1952 and spent my formative years in the sixties. The optimism and harmony seemed palpable and although horrible things were going on, The Cold War, Vietnam etc. we “baby boomers” thought we could make the world a nicer more inclusive place! For a few brief moments it seemed we could succeed but like so much it was a false dawn and now as we reach old age, it seems we could not have done a better job of making the world worse.
The litany of poor decisions and bad policies are endless. Humans have made enormous progress in the short span of time I have lived, probably more than at any other time in history. Technology’s, medicine, health care, education and much more has advance at a huge rate and spread further than ever before. The”west” no longer dominates, Asian advance has radically changed the way we trade and do business. We were for more than 50 years part of a large trading block and much more as part of the EU, which sadly was unnecessarily torn from our grasp by lies and fear and an antiquated desire to be a “sovereign” state! What fools we are, for even one second, to think we can go it alone in today’s global markets. Nobody talks about it, well certainly not in Parliament but we all know it has been a disaster and our country has suffered.
There is no confidence in the government and voting Tory would be like shooting yourself in the foot and yet we know so many will still waste their vote on this busted, divided, mismanaged party. So we rumble on, more confused, less safe and with a permanent sense that it all could have been so different and maybe, just maybe, it still can?
My generation has a lot to answer, I can only tell you we meant well but after all we are all flawed ! I still have optimism but it’s damn hard to hang onto!
Stay well
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