John wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 6:52 pm
** 02-Mar-2022 World View: Response to comments
I'd like to thank tim, Navigator, Xeraphim1, MrGuest, DaKardii,
Trevor, spottybrowncow, Guest, Tom Mazanec, Lightbulb, thinker, and
even the obnoxious Cool Breeze, for all your comments.
Moments like this present me with a problem. I want to feel sorry for
myself because I'm miserable, depressed, in intermitten pain, alone,
surviving on Social Security, disgusted with the Cassandra Curse, and
I have no apparent function in life anymore except moderating this
forum.
However, I have to say that reading all your wonderful messages -- and
they really are wonderful -- I more fully appreciate that my one
remaining function in life, moderating this forum, may be more
important than I imagined. There's some sort of cosmic force going
on, that I don't understand, that's telling me that I'm doing
something unique and I have to go on for a while longer, at least
until WW III begins.
A couple of people suggested that I'm creating some kind of legacy
that will last forever. I have to disagree. The Cassandra Curse is
very powerful. Generational Dynamics will die with me. Upton
Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Nobody's
salary depends on understanding Generational Dynamics.
I published four books, thinking that they would create some sort of
legacy that would survive me. And they're really good books, in my
opinion. I'm really proud of them. You would think by this time,
they would have generated some interest somewhere, but they haven't.
I've only sold a few dozen copies of each.
After I'm gone, very few people will even remember Generational
Dynamics, and many of them will remember it only with scorn and
derision as the invention of an old Boomer fossil. There will be
nobody whose selary depends on keeping Generation Dynamics alive, so
it will die.
"'Til I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh, if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me" -- the Bee Gees