The following post was written as a reflection upon this meme:

As one of the few remaining World War II babies (born 1942), I actually, personally, remember the contaminated atmosphere of our world in total shit way way before I started to consciously recall that it went to shit. Remembering it before it went to shit is likely the Boomer generation’s experience. The ’50s, especially, when comfortable middle class family life stabilized the (pulsing) center between the rapacious way-too-rich, and the ghastly way-too-poor.

But then of course, as everything changes, stabilization turned into stagnation, finally wrenching the culture in the opposite direction: what the few remaining my age and boomers now remember, nostalgically, as “the (turbulent, free-love, do your thing) ’60s.”

Yes, I remember World War II, the F.E.A.R (False Evidence Appearing Real) her husband (my father) would not return, how it paralyzed my mother, so that she was unable to emotionally nourish me, much less to breast feed me. That stopped the very day he left home, and I seem to recall her own mother recommended that she wean me to a cup rather than a bottle. No wonder I was addicted to cigarettes for so long!

I know I’ve detailed this before, here, ad nauseam!  And no wonder. This was my PTSD imprint. What was yours? Because we all have one, some experience, or ongoing situation, or both, when we were very young and impressionable, that stamped us for life, rigidifying attitudes, values, etc., unless and until we begin to “process” what happened to us. And even then, there’s no way to erase. Rather soften into spaciousness as much as possible.

Personal Processing

 

BTW: her mother, my grandmother, never let her children meet their grandparents, even though they lived in the same town. Why? Because they were obviously “Jewish.” Not that I ever knew this, while growing up. Our Jewish ancestry was successfully hidden for me, until a few years ago! Jewish meant “bad.” Jewish meant contaminated.

So, you might say, the world has been going to shit forever! And resurrecting, regenerating, forever!

And it’s not just generational, racial, cultural wars. How about those drat “flock” cameras? Our current city council finally got word about the flock cameras having been introduced to Bloomington, and they started a local movement to have them removed! YES!

https://bloomington.in.gov/news/2026/04/15/6521

Bloomington is by far not the only town. At least 85 towns across this nation have NOT renewed their flock contracts.

Meanwhile, some contrarians don’t bother to wait for legal means.

It may be that flock cameras, and other applications, technologies, of the AI driven technocratic state, will be the trigger that unites us all, to finally see and feel beyond our increasingly polarized left-right divide.

Bah humbug to all that! We are all human beings, deserving of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.