There Have Never Been Any Adults

I am sick and fucking tired of this soulful mourning for the past. Remember when our politicians had class? Remember when people knew how to behave themselves? Remember when the world was only made of perfect specimens and everyone followed the rules? THIS WAS NEVER TRUE.

History is written by the victors. Sure, it’s a cliché, but at least historically, it is true. The act of being able to write things down and pass them along was coveted and protected by “the elites.” Now everyone is up in arms because “stupid people are allowed to have opinions on the internet.” As if stupid people weren’t having opinions long before the internet. As if they themselves aren’t stupid people on the internet.

Politicians didn’t used to have class. They used to have such a monopoly on power and information that who they were in public was wildly different from who they were in private. When half the population can’t read or write, and those in power simply kill those with anything negative to say, of course to the outside perspective it looks like the epitome of class and decorum.

People have never behaved. Right here, right now. Truly the most behaved humanity has ever been. Have you actually read about the Spanish Flu? Have you actually read about American lynching? Have you taken the time to ask your own father how many men he’s beat or killed?

Being alive at any point in history sucks. It’s fucking hard work. The world is filled with people each with their own opinions and ideals about what…