Don'T Trust Anyone Under Thirty

We’re told to trust in their passion, that they’re the future we should be, despite the fact they’re not old enough to know how to shave properly. They think that being a hero involves loud marches in the street, not doing what you have to do to make sure that your kids can eat. They believe that they can change things by posting their feelings online, ignorant that this approach keeps failing time after time. They think that with enough power they can reshape the human mind, that any who call them out on this must be fascistic and malign. They think they’re breaking all the rules based on who they’re taking to bed, point out that it will not end well and they’re fuming, seeing red. The fact that it’s been tried before doesn’t enter into their heads, nor that past folk who liked that way found their nations broken and dead. We’re told they have special knowledge that only comes from innocence, to trust that their naivete somehow beats our experience? Most of them do not know the change that comes from being parents, to follow what they have to say does not make a whole lot of sense. Most of them do not have the years to learn lessons once, much less twice. They toss aside old traditions, don’t care for older folk’s advice. Try to fill their emptiness, try to hide their growing strife, thinking that booze and casual sex will drown out the great void inside. Don’t trust anyone over thirty, that’s the creed of the Hippy Age, Don’t trust anyone under thirty is a saying that’s far more sage. Following youth will only bring dysfunction and difficult days, besides, they’re bound to end up like us, they’re new actors doing the same play.