Stay Home So We Don’t Die?

Henry James, Author
2 min readMar 24, 2020
Photo by Elien Dumon on Unsplash

We’re the older generations. Your parents, grandparents and great grandparents. We’re your old aunts and uncles. We fought the great wars. Started them too. We took away the hope of Europe. We crushed you with unsurmountable student debt. We destroyed the planet. We stole your futures. We elected right-wing buffoons and clowns who deny science. We stole a woman’s right to her own body. We raped maids in hotel rooms, molested little boys and girls in the name of religion, and maintained a system of sexual abuse that was as common as running water in a pay-to-play Hollywood system.

There is no hope.

And now we want you to stay home, so we can live.

We’ve rigged the retirement systems of the world, so that all of the wealth is in our hands. The gutted programs we’ve left in place are merely imaginative and elaborate smoke and mirrors. Buffoons and clowns and Hitler wannabes are in charge across the planet, supported by their sycophant minions (seemingly immune from the fecal matter pathogens their tongues lap up in Pence-like fashion). Amazingly, the ‘strongmen’ in charge seem immune to the latest virus. We elected them.

There is no hope.

And now we want you to stay home, so we can live.

The rapacious consumer world we created has wiped out entire species, poisoned the land…

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Henry James, Author
Henry James, Author

Written by Henry James, Author

From the hot, humid South, writing about uncomfortable truths and our present-day insanity. Voted handsomest man in Éire. Crime thriller just completed.

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