Elderly Dynamics

In the miserable misfortunes known as Balkan societies, the cult of respect for the elderly is omnipresent. Perhaps less so today than ever, at least judging by the chatter of elderly people who complain that there is no more respect for the elderly, the young are described as more furious, uncultured, evil and unfamiliar with the default value of old age.

I believe that every generation from the time of  Biblical Noah and even earlier from the Anunnaki to the present has complained that the younger generations are ``stupid`` and that in ``their time`` there was order, respect and discipline. The classic generation gap, the malice of elderly characters who are jealous of someone else's youth or just good old whining? There is a whole arsenal of proverbs and sayings about the supposed wisdom of the elderly, it is sung in folk songs and stories, myths and legends are full of ``aging`` qualities. Adolescence and childhood as concepts are relatively recent, given the shift in age boundaries compared to the past as a result of increased life expectancy. Childhood was invented by Charles Dickens in 1844.

Just as `old age` no longer begins at 40 as it once did (and somewhat earlier for women) but much later, perceptions are changing as well. Truth be told, there is a counterweight to this cult, and that is the cult of youth/children, but that is another topic...

What are the qualities that are worthy of respect in senior citizens?

Why should the elderly be privileged over others?

Are the elderly perhaps considered `keepers` of tradition?

First of all, the question should be asked whether there are any 'young' people in these parts because the young have an old-fashioned way of thinking, they inherited cowardice from the old who still nurse the new generations with fear and humility, every power is sacred to them, every authority is absolute. The exterior expressed in a 25-year-old body only conceals the 96-year-old perception of the creature that is hidden inside that garment. His or her fingers may be fast on a keyboard or a touch-screen, they may have sex incomparably more than their pitiful predecessors and they may be extremely liberal in terms of soft drugs, gambling and alcohol. They watch different movies and listen to different music than their parents, grandparents and other animals - but these are those insignificant, skin deep differences because the clothes and the hairstyle and the music and Twitter - come from the outside world into the empty head of the young person. What they emanate from themselves around them is the same morbid stupidity and total lack of social awareness about any matter that will be crucial in their lives and in the lives of their future offspring...Therefore, do not scratch below the surface if you do not want to see rot.

The generation gap is not something big in the Balkans, it never has been, except for the technology that separates them - the other aspects are very similar or completely identical, so if we take the life fundamentals of a 19-year-old and an 80-year-old, it will be determined that they think according to identical patterns and have a noticeable absence of social awareness. If we go into the more distant past and notice what folk proverbs and wisdom have been preserved through the centuries, we will reach the glorification of stupidity, fear, obedience, spinelessness and sycophancy. The deception is that each generation probably prolongs the myth of old wisdom in order to give itself a false value and in time to poison the well from which the younger ones will drink tomorrow.

The `wise` generations sold the future of today's generation for 150 euros per month. Today's generation sells the future of the next one for 200 euros. And a sandwich at a rally, of course. And that cycle seems never to end. The only hope is the catastrophic birth rate, emigration and growing mortality. Here, a few Kilotons or a suitable biological agent, strategically dispersed over the peninsula, would help...Although generalization is a sword with at least two edges, sometimes it imposes itself with regard to current situations. It is not an attack on specific individuals or their grandparents to whom they are attached and do not like such a generalization. The conversation is about the values ​​that are passed down generationally and whether/how much they are worth.

And they are worth almost nothing.

What`s more, if you go back centuries - the peninsula was a miserable place to live, a perpetuation of shit, never an inch away from a bare struggle for existence and survival. A bowed head flies and is not eaten. An interesting coincidence, at the height of the period with the highest standard of living of the population in the history of these regions, during the so-called ``Ante Marković period``, the people apparently found themselves in an unrecognizable situation of being outside the struggle for bare life and completely shocked and confused, instead of following the consolidation of that beginning - a bloody orgy of evil followed spread over a decade of wars, hunger, diseases, unprecedented theft and corruption.

In the past, there was no class in these regions that was outside the struggle for bare survival, and today there is such a small insignificant group of political-criminal origin whose survival requires the suffering of the majority of the population. And that is the worst possible option...The centuries-old struggle for survival without the ability to raise one's head even slightly above the threshold of the shit that threatens to enter the mouth of the individual at any moment, to take a breath in order to do something more significant than survival - is at the root of the curse of many meridians, including the poor peninsula, condemned to thrive on a diet of delusions and slavery.

The answers to the questions posed are self-evident. There are almost no qualities that are worthy of respect in senior citizens. Elderly people should not have any privileges in relation to others. The traditions that are ``preserved`` by the elderly are a cheap mythomania worse than a random invention of a five-year-old child. The semblance of a possible decent life here depends proportionally on how much one will part ways with those ``values`` once and for all. It is probably already too late for that and one is just waiting for the curtain to fall, an act that is never pleasant to watch but is the logical result of centuries and centuries of morbid stupidity.

(Roger Mortis, 073)