No Country for Old Men, and no world for old women!

[vickitulsa]

Haven't even seen the new movie, but I'm hearing interesting comments in reviews.

And the follow-up part, after the comma, was just what came immediately to my mind tonight as I pondered that movie title: "No world for old women!"

I suppose one could lump them together with even more brevity, and just say, No place for old people, period.

Not just being sarcastic, here, and certainly not frivolous. Far from it! What use does this modern world have anymore for those of us who are aging and likely to be seen as a burden, nothing more?

I'm beginning to wonder if youngsters today just don't think about ever being "in our shoes" in part because they have a sad or jaded notion that things are so bad already, they aren't likely to live to be old, when they would need care and concern.

Many of us felt that way back in my youth, in the heyday of the famous 60's, after all, didn't we? And with good cause, living under the gloomy shadow of the nuclear annihilation cloud as we did then, right? Wasn't that really what led so many of us to "tune in" to the "drop out" message? And then follow through on it to the extent we dared, or to the depth we feared?

I recall that when I was only an eighth-grader, the Cuban Missile Crisis scared the bejeezus out of me and convinced me that, even if the global thermonuclear war that seemed inevitable in those weeks didn't rain fallout on us all immediately, it would happen sooner or later anyway.

It was bound to happen, soon to come. The die was cast, the triggers cocked, the barrels loaded. No way around it, for sure.

How different was that from how kids these days must feel with regard to global climate change and pervasive war and terror? My senator (Inhofe the Idiot) may think "global warming is a hoax," but today's youth damn well know it isn't!

And what does this state of mind imply in terms of implications for their own lives and concerns?

Why, indeed, SHOULD they care about old people?