The Joke that is America's Age... Thing

Okay. First off. "40" is the new "25!" "30" is the new "20!" 21" is the new "16!" What the hell is all that????? Okay. So our society is saying this...

People that are middle-aged are barely starting to mature. People who have been on their own for a decade still act like they just graduated high school. People who are old enough to vote, drink, and do the nasty are barely mature enough to learn how to drive a car.

Raise your hand if any of this scares the bee-geebers out of you. Yet. There is some merit to all this. The irony comes in the form of well...facts. And of course, hypocrisy. While we spew all these cool "age" sayings of how much younger we are getting, we then turn around and say, "God, it's amazing how much more 13-year-olds know now compared to when I was a kid."

Huh? Double Huh?

So lets check this out. We are full of people living mid-life criseses, pre-mid-life criseses, and about-to-graduate college-mid-life criseses, BUT we are more "knowing." (????)

Okay, again...
Huh?

Doesn't anyone see that this sums up America perfectly. See America the country itself is awesome. But who...who...who....in their right mind could respect most Americans???? They have allowed themselves to be dummy downed so much that its become common behavior. For being so "advanced" compared to the rest of the world like our officials like to claim (falsely) then why is it that

1. We are the least educated rich nation on the planet....with room to spare between the closest one ahead of us.
2. We are the most violent.
3. We have the most cases of "unwanted" pregnancy. (Don't forget many of those other nations have young women who plan to get pregnant
at an early age.)
4. We have a majorly sagging economy now trailing the Euro, the Pound, soon-to-be the Yen, and even the Peso is gaining.
5. We are even sagging in world rankings in sports WE CREATED or PERFECTED, for pete's sake!

We are less hard working, more immature, less accountable, more whiny, and definitely less honorable than in any other time in our history. Within one generation we will be full blown Socialist (Recognized at least, since we are already). Within two we will be 99% impoverished with an Aristocracy. Within three we will be a flood of Republics and Totalitarian States in the middle of mass Civil Wars.

Don't believe me, read your history.

So what does that have to do with age?

Think about it.

The country's people have been slowly given identity criseses. They have been perpetuated by the "trust-fund" goverment which continually adds to its club membership of never-had-to-work-for-a-paycheck-that-made-the-difference-between-living-in-the-street-or-not-losers that tells the other 95% of the nation, that actually has to fight to survive, what to do to survive.

Please.

Raise your hand if you think you could be stuck in a burning building with the entire membership of Congress and be the one to lead their snively "I'll just buy myself out of this one" club to safety, while they pull on your pant leg. The identity crisis each American deals with is just another distraction. Another ploy for us not to be able to find ourselves. Not being able to be someone of free will and thought. They keep us at bay by telling everyone, just worry about you, while not paying attention to us. (Tee-hee, said Hillary).

Well I for one have my eye on the real problem. And here is your prime example of where they have gone about screwing us. Read these next five lines.

You can drink beer at 21.
You can fight in a war at 18.
You can have sex legally at 18.
You can work at 16.
You can drive at 16.

Okay. Now rank these in order of importance. How do I mean? Rank them in terms of which subjects involve the most people directly and indirectly tied to the act itself. Rank them in order of which acts that an individual does could ultimately affect others around them. Usually when people say "Be responsible for your actions" it means "Watch how what you do affects others."

On that note...I'll take my own shot at ranking these. In ascending order of responsibility.

5. Having sex. (affects 2 people, and maybe a 3rd)
4. Drinking a beer (affects 1 person, directly)
3. Fighting in a War (affects 1 person directly, and potentially thousands indirectly, but, because Wars are few and far between they drop in the rankings)
2. Working a Job (1 person directly, and dozens, to hundreds, to thousands, depending on the job.)
1. Driving a Car (1 person directly, and dozens, to thousands, every time you are on the road)

Now. Look at these contradictions.

1. You can drive a car at 16 (a vehicle that can KILL others if you are not responsible), You can work a job (food industry, retail, movie theaters, valet, supermarkers) that you could food poison, injure, or even kill a customer, BEFORE you can have sex (where you make your own choice with your own body), drink a beer (which you can do in the privacy and safety of your home, and you can't count drink or drive, because if they didn't have a license at 16, it would be moot) or fight a war (which is defending our freaking country.)

2. You can go to war but you can't drink a beer? (The oldest argument in the world) but here's something else. These proponents of "drinking is dangerous" don't realize how stupid they are. If it's so dangerous, then why isn't it illegal? It's like smoking kills, but they are iegal. Again hypocrisy.

3. You can screw before you drink? That may be the only one that makes sense.

Are you confused? If you say, yes. Mission Accomplished. And the Government has succeeded. Shame on you.
Push for this or let the government rule you.

1. By the age of 16 you should be able:
a. to work
b. to have sex consensually

2. By the age of 18:
a. you should be able to drive
b. you should be able to go to drink
c. you should be able to go to war

3. By the age of 21
a. you should be able to vote.

Why vote last? Because after 3-5 years of living as an adult in training, only then do you actually qualify for someone who has enough "field" knowledge to know what could help or hurt this country. Until then, who really gives a darn what you think! Why does anyone have the right to dictate policy if they can't even prove to have dictated themselves.

Part II. Age or Merit?