Mr. Obama

There are good, old men in the world.  It's a mistake to conflate either youth or age with automatic goodness.  

Ageism is an unchallenged prejudice in the United States, scripted and reinforced for a century by an uneducated, emotionally and intellectually stunted entertainment industry that both enshrines and enslaves youth.  That prejudice can't be eradicated if the Baby Boomers won't admit to being over 30 and if the entertainment industry continues to have no EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS.  Educational requirements are the least intrusive way to address the entertainment industry's sickening abuse of the First Amendment. Helping people to understand why what they're doing is wrong, so that they don't want to do it and they make other decisions, is much more effective and less fraught with potential constitutional issues than passing a lot of laws about what people can or can't specifically say, write or film.  An exception to this ought to be the depiction of sadistic and gratuitous violence; there should be laws passed immediately to eliminate that problem. 

Not only is nursing home abuse a terrible and under-reported crime, there is no reason that people should be made to feel ashamed of aging.  There is also no reason that the collective intelligence and life experience of the aging and the elderly should be treated as if they are negligible, absent, or nothing by contrast to the horrible ridicule to which human beings are subjected when they are old.




That's the address of YouTube results for "nursing home abuse."  I can't watch the videos; there was a clip of one of them on television a few weeks ago.  There are so many people at the homeless shelter that a lot of what's on television doesn't elicit a response amidst the many conversations taking place, but that clip did, probably because we all know, from our years as clients of the social services, how badly people are frequently treated by those who are supposed to help them.  

I don't know if I have mentioned lately how shameful it is that elderly people have to live in homeless shelters.  There's been no change about that since 2010; every administration in the country has seemed to have other priorities.  

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