Without A Future

What do Neil Young, Rob Ford, Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have in common?  They are worshipped by the media and popular with the electorate.  They are big pot advocates.

Pot spawns great art and musical genius – but we cannot eat music and stoners don’t educate, operate, litigate, build roads or defend their fellow citizens.

Why do our young people drool over OJ Simpson, Elton John, Michael Jackson and Dennis Rodman?  Why elect dope peddlers who cannot see the future through their hallucinogenic haze?

Our forefathers risked life and limb to escape to the New World for the benefit of their offspring.  Their integrity built the civilization we once enjoyed.  Our grandchildren now exist in the wreckage of the miracle created by their ancestors.  Why did our youth choose to get high rather than repairing and building anew?

When faith died, many in my generation reverted to loving themselves at the expense of their progeny.  Nuclear power offered to turn the lights on.   My peers said yes - and to hell with the lethal mess that this would leave behind.

And so our lights burn bright today but rising background radiation is busy castrating every life form in existence on the planet, forever.  The lights are bright but we are fried and rapidly losing our ability to think.  Problems escalate and solutions evaporate.  Brick wall ahead.

Without a future …