from timeline (Cindy Josephs) : text on "The Pro-Age Revolution" (a very much "think positive" approach, Still, with the fundamental theses I go along , I would run, if that might make a difference! There is one big, bigger biggest issue totally ignored: poverty in old age...probably because Cindy Josephs stunning success and ongoing, too... as a first class model (and I mean: cover photos etc. on nearly all glossy women`s magazines= a steda avalanche of ads decorated by some copy-writing, but then, the photos are so professionally constructed... so these magazines are a bit like windows-shopping..all this highend fashion, cosmetics etc., which, I dare say, is not for us , rather our scarce budgets; back to my point: modelling on that level plus trading her own cosmetics-line will sure not stress her with financial problems at all... but in the district I live, lots of migrants, lots jobless, on state "benefits"= the word is just too sarcastic , I find... I still see women younger than me and surely all older , 70ties, 80ties, women sitting with arms resting on window sills...just watching..what? well, bit of life, the sort of lively life they , if on low pensions or on "Minimal Existence"(this "name, definition..." really haunts me), plain and simple cannot take part in ... it all already begins, if on Poverty line, with not really being able to afford public transportation ...then, very fast: relatives and friends for life either die or vanish ...then what have we : isolation , "social death"... depression, addictions: growing fanbloodytastic on these Ghettos-Hiding with shame. They , or a large part of them, feel shame and bitterness... that they are"dismissed" from this society, culture... in which there is far more status thinking than many may believe, bitter, because most of them have worked hard all their life, gave birth to and looked after children, low-paid jobs, and the disaster storms in: they feel defeated by a system they do not even try to understand any longer...(which is systematically planned as well!)... and their shame, feelings of having failed, of not having tried harder (they most likely could not have done that, with cheap labor always being hard labor!) The knowledge that at their age they will not be able to change , to not give up etc. ... what a painfuly ridiculous thinking, in a system, in which you are done with from the age of 40, no matter what fantastic qualifications, experience blabla..they could offer: "the train is gone " (a German figure of speech)... well, then they, if lucky, become fatalistic or, bit worse: depressed and suicidal...then they develop all sorts of physical diseases...then they die. Mostly without no "Thank you for all you have done.." Maybe, that`s the reason for me "throwing " in this comment..,.the "Pro-Ager" do look further than their own front lawns!!!
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:59:28 +0000
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