Do You often sit around and wonder what history is going to think of the
time in which you're living in. You can look back at other generations,
other decades, other eras, and you see a certain romanticism, whether it's
the nineteen forties and the World War Two heroes and that generation often being referred
to as the greatest generation, the baby boomer generation. You see the impact
they've left. The nineteen fifties and the romanticism that we have with it,
the sixties and the counter culture that began, and the protest and those things
that you continue to see. Nineteen seventies, Disco, oh, nineteen eighties,
Reagan era. You move forward and you get into today's day and age,
and we're living in the TikTok era, the era of Twitter, and
I do find myself questioning, how will history judge this era. I don't
know that it's going to be as kind as we want it to be.
Maybe they'll romanticize some of the things. Maybe they'll romanticize the fact that somebody
can instantly get fifteen minutes of fame instantly for jumping on the internet and acting
like an idiot. But I look at these times and as you often here,
I believe that we are currently living in the dumbest timeline the example are
there. We continue to see things that don't make any logical sense any longer,
whether it's the argument about a man waking up one day and deciding that
he is in fact a woman and me supposed to it just blindly accept that,
despite the fact that science says that's not possible. Other illogical arguments that
we continue to see and are being told that, despite the fact that logic
and history and science are on our side, that we are in fact wrong
because it might hurt someone's feelings to say otherwise. You look at some of
the content, the entertainment content, and it's all quick hitting, short,
first TikTok videos. They're not usually very long. You go on YouTube,
you watch videos, they're normally the ones that most people gravitate towards, or
the shorter ones, the little, quick, short sound bites. Even in
American politics, we don't watch debates any longer for substantive arguments on the issues.
We watched debates for that thirty second sound bite. We want to see
who got the better one upman on the other candidate. We want to see
who had the best line of the night. That's far more important to us
than who was right on the issues. Now, when I think folks come
back and look at when historians are looking at our era, our generations,
I'm not sure how kind they're going to look at it. We look at
We live in a time now where in youth sports, instead of declaring true
winners, we say that everybody one just because they participated. We're not teaching
valuable lessons any longer because again, instead of showing them there are in fact
winners and losers, we're saying that no, no, everyone won, even
though we know that's not truly accurate. We are living in world in a
weird time now. Will this current generation be judged kindly or will it be
romantic size the way that we look back at the nineteen fifties and the family
units that were around then and have a certain level of nostalgia for it.
We live in an era now where marriage is treated same as going steady.
You don't like your marriage, get out of it, get a divorse,
marry someone else. Marriage should not be treated like a high school relationship with
two people just going steady. It should be treated with more respect. If
you listen to the music that plays nowadays. Most your lyrics not all.
There are some talented songwriters out there, but most of your lyrics are not
lyrically stimulating. Most of the song are more about the great beat than they
are about any true great lyricist. A lot of times when they say listen
to that person, they're a great lyricist, and then when you do,
you find out they pell in comparison to the truly great lyricists from the past.
When you look at this generation and you see how sanitized their entertainment has
become, it's a paint by numbers diversity checklist. The story doesn't matter as
much as making sure that you have at least three black actors, two Asian
actors, three Filipino actors, two Hispanic acts and maybe throwing a couple of
Caucasians just for good measure. We're not worried about story, and we're worried
about making sure that we check all the diversity checkbox. Oh, by the
way, make sure you have a gay character in there, maybe two or
three now, because maybe one's not enough anymore. Doesn't matter if that character
doesn't fit the story, I gotta check that diversity checkbox. So yes,
when we look at the time that we're living in, will history judge this
timeline kindly? Will it look back with the rose colored glasses and say,
hey, look that's the time we long for. No, No, I
don't think it will. I think at the end of the day, historians
will point out that we are, in fact living in the dumbest timeline.
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