Journal, Day 1597
Friday, 02 August 2024
Ukraine War: Day 892
Hamas-Israel War: Day 299
Mass shootings in the USA in 2024: 323
Disclaimer: I don’t want anyone to think I’m hating on Pete Davidson. I respect Pete Davidson. His dad was a NYC firefighter who died on 9/11 when Pete was an 8-year-old kid. That would mess anyone up.
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What I despise is how EW handled that story. First of all, it’s none of the public’s damn business if Pete feels that he needs to seek healthcare. Why would they even publish that? That should be a private thing. Just because he’s famous doesn’t mean we need to know what color his poop is.
However, I also know that Pete has been a very vocal advocate and even a lifeline for people with life-altering mental health issues. The fact is, he’s one of the very few celebs who actually worked his ASS off to be where he is in his professional life. No nepo-baby, that. And the fact that he was able to find that measure of success, while fighting inner demons not of his own doing at the same time, is nothing short of exceptional.
What gets me is all of the gen-y and gen-z brats who are living high on the hog off the blood, sweat, and tears of their Boomer and gen-x parents. Their parents lived through being self-reliant latchkey kids. Most of them were the last of the successfully educated public school kids. They (we) worked themselves sick so their (our) kids could have what we didn’t, but now those same adult kids take it all for granted.
But the worst of it is they don’t have the memories of things like WWI, the Great Depression, or WWII that we still carry. There has never been a true global war in their lifetime. So now they’re itching for a fight because they feel SO entitled, but they don’t have any concept of the horrors that would bring.
The public educational system has been systemically dismantled for the past 50 years, and we now have an adult population of idiots.
Meanwhile, those of us whose parents lived as adults during WWII are still working. Retirement is a pipe dream. We are the forgotten generation and we will have to work until we die.
