Monday, December 26, 2011

Angry Aging Grandma Protester

Continuing on with my fascination with old hippies who are still protesting and their faces when captured by photograhy, I remembered this picture from my capitalism/socialism seminar I did a couple years back.

This one is even more rewarding in that you can just see the results on what happens when naive children, WITHOUT RICH PARENTS TO BAIL THEM OUT, decide they're going to go and avoid the real world and become "professional protesters" or, more simply, dedicate their lives to a socialist cause. ie-what today's modern day OWS protester will become 40 years from now.



Just look at that.

Again, I ask those of you from the hippie generation, was it worth it? Are you happy you wasted your lives like you did? That lady could have had grandchildren right now. Could have had a normal life, a loving husband, loving family. Trips to Yellowstone, memories of Thanksgiving and Christmas (though duly noted this is Britain). Dancing the night away with her husband all dressed up in a nice evening dress. NIghts of cocktailing and martini's at jazz clubs. Watching black and white flicks until late into the evening. "Rocking chair time" as her and her husband lived out their last days on the porch. Heck, she could have also become an accountant or a doctor with a rewarding and PRODUCTIVE career.

Sadly, all I see is somebody who isn't really angry with society, as much as she is herself for being so stupid to piss her youth away. Now her brain faces a paradox:

Does she admit she was wrong this entire time and salvage what little of her life remains?

or

Does she continue down the path she set out for her self back in 1968 because her ego refuses to swallow its pride, thereby guaranteeing the remaining 10-20 years of her life are pissed away like the previous 50?

I don't credit these people with the intellectual honesty and fortitude to admit they were wrong. They just can't handle it, at least while they're alive. And so they will continue to piss away what little life they have left until they're on their death bed. And at that moment in time, the truth will fight its ugly way up through their gut to the frontal lobes of the brain where these people will be forced to realize and accept a conscious, crystalized thought;

"Oh my god. I wasted my life, and I have only myself to blame."

I will of course be sitting there, popcorn in hand, shot of Rumpie in the other, enjoying every minute of it as I enjoy the decline.

11 comments:

Izanpo said...

lol....discount dentures.

*Granny Hippie becomes extremely nauseous when she CAN'T smell cat piss for 20 minutes.

(*shamelessly ripped off Mad magazine.)

Arch said...

She certainly has the NHS smile.

SDH said...

That dude's a chick? Are you sure?

Anonymous said...

Yeah, right. Age makes us all ugly: I'm around the same age, but I don't take phonts when I am snarling.

http://pukeko.net.nz/blog/about/

Aged about 10 years more than needed, perhap?

PS: son read your book. Twice.

Hot Sam said...

Self hatred is the foundation of all leftist thinking. Once your soul is burning in that fire, it's hard to put out.

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nbA0h0WfA4U

The times they're a changin'.

she said: said...

Most people have no self awareness. So I don't think it matters one way or the other to them.

Anonymous said...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fHjubwDkQBY/TePcT8zVRNI/AAAAAAAAEt4/BoQav5awlt4/s1600/Funny+Horse+Smile1.jpg

Andrea said...

Well I don't know. It seems to me that you can't tell whether a person is happy or unhappy with their life choices just by one picture where they have an unpleasant expression on their face. She may actually be perfectly happy to be a Protest Granny (and she may actually be married with kids and grandkids who are okay with what she does in her spare time). Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's true.

Also, it's possible that the alternate bourgeois life you sketched out for her (marriage, family, tv, dancing, cocktails, vacations) is something she actively rejected because she hated the very idea of it. Believe it or not, not every woman is marriage-'n'-kids material.

On the other hand, it's possible that the woman deep down inside regrets her life choices and takes out the resulting rage against society for not enabling her to live more than one life at once. At the very least, someone should tell her that fluorescent green cornrow braids don't look good on anyone over the age of 25.

Captain Capitalism said...

Right Andrea, you want to put money on her having a "normal" "happy" life? No offense, but no real man would marry that, let alone stay married to it. Why do women always go for the "well, there's always the miniscule chance she isn't a raving psychopathic feminist bitch, so you can't be 100% sure."

No dear, I CAN be 100% sure. Start spreading the news. Men are no longer being intellectually honest to hold out of the "1%" chance she isn't a "psycho raving bitch."

Time you girls start acting like genuine, respectable women. Which means no more green braids at the age of 60 while you protest against reality.

Marina said...

I have always wondered the same thing about old hippies. I Look at them and think what a waste of a life. Think that you are right though, they can't admit that they have been wrong and stupid.