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Mommy, Daddy, Why Did You Kill Us All? A Cautionary Tale As We Look At The World We’re Leaving For The Generations Of Young And The Yet To Be Born.
Humanity’s Unfortunate Truth
We know it’s coming. We’ve known for years, and when today's leaders blow their horns and bellow into their microphones for hours on end, I wonder why some of them didn’t act sooner. Some of them have been in positions of power for my entire adult life. Some of them have been in power for even longer. When we look at the leaders that have failed us the most, perhaps none has been more prolific a failure than the current United States President, Joe Biden. He’s been in politics since I was a child. I’m now 49.
While the rich got richer, the poor stayed poor, and the middle class started to gradually slope downwards into the poverty line economically, the people of the planet Earth behaved shamefully. I’m one of them, not at the degree and volume of many, but still guilty none the same. Only as the pandemic of 2019 began to rage on and I was forced to endure a paradigm shift in my usual activities did I begin to pay attention to what’s been going on in the world while I was busy raising my son, working a job, and trying to find “myself.”