You Will Shoot Your Eye Out

                                                                  I have just watched one of my all time favorite pictures (Lillies of the Fields with Sidney Poitier) and something struck me pretty hard.

In that I noticed something that has been bothering me a lot lately. But I just could not quite put my finger on it. Then like a bolt of lightening it hit me. In that the world that I was watching was so vastly different from the one we live in.

The big thing was that their world inspite of the racism etc. etc. seemed to be a world of hope, respect and a sense of what it use to be to be an American.

Now I know that I am an old man of 66 plus years. That & I know that the old will always say things were better in their day. (We been doing that since Cain & Abel. & But I can still remember the 60’s & the 70’s.)

That and my pain pills are on strike right now. As Spinal stenosis is a real joy that I would not wish on my worst enemy. Sorry about the moaning & complaining.

But when did we become so untrusting of our fellow man? Why is that it seems that for want of a better word has our world become so brutal and ugly?  Why this race to the bottom of the pit of crassness and fake ? Why does it also seem that there is so little real beauty left anymore in our culture ? (Like our women trying their best to get ugly? Tatts etc etc.) The bottom line being as to how has this come about?

If anybody has some brillant observations about this and what we can do about this. I would really be grateful to hear it.

Thanks

Grumpy

PS  Please no the Jews, Blacks etc etc. are the cause. As I know quite a few of these folks and they are not happy about this either.