General Discussion

I walked the uncommon road: I figured out by age 16 that I didn't want to have kids. I figured out at an early age that the whole television fantasy of having kids was the key to a happy life was a delusion and that the majority of the workload fell on the woman . My love for nature and grief for the lands destruction added to my many reasons to avoid breeding.
I didn't get a college education, and had to live as best I could on dead end low wage jobs with few or no benefits.
None of this makes me some kind of entitled person, who had everything handed to me on a silver platter, who wilfully went on a campaign to ruin life for future generations.
Like many people my age, I have fought for social justice and healing and restoration of the life support systems of our planet.
It really pisses me off to be accused of all that is wrong with our society. Maybe you are too young to have experienced what it was like to face off with the most powerful government of the richest country in the world? People in my parents generation wanted us shot and/or beaten and tear gassed by the cops and the military, because we dared to march and demonstrate against greed and injustice. The anniversary of the shootings at Kent State was May 4th, and the shootings at Jackson State just a few days later.
It's too bad that we couldn't fix everything that is wrong with the world, so that future generations wouldn't have to make any effort, but we didn't get handed a perfect society either.
My point is that it doesn't do any good to heap all the blame on one generation. The same bigots and greed heads who caused all the suffering and injustice back then are the same septic sacks of $hit who are supporting the regime and their drive for total dictatorship.
Not trying to be trite, but we're all stuck with trying to work together to push back against what seems like a juggernaut.