" A long period of rot " . That was my old friend Ed Maguire thinking about the future of the USA way back in 1973. Ed died of a heart attack just before he turned 40 in 1990.
I don't know of ANY cure for depression in the later years. Cheap red wine might be as effective as dreamy metaphysical fantasy . My niece -now in her mid thirties- just had a first child, beautiful baby girl - a prescription for hope, I guess.
There is solace in the thinking of the Roman philosopher Lucretius . But I can't get over his ending that beautiful epic poem " On the Nature of Things " with those last horrible images of the great plague in Athens. The last pages of Saint Augustine's " City of God " were less depressing- unless you were among the wicked damned.
Well another wild Irish common man philosopher friend ( Vietnam War veteran ) of mine said : " Life sucks and then you die " . He died at 63 . He did keep his hospitable refrigerator full of beer. I did scold him - in vain - to stop smoking. He always called me " Radical Ron ".
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comments that are courteous, concise and relevant are always welcome, whether or not they agree with the views expressed here or not. Profanity is not necessary. Thank you for reading “Time Enough At Last!”
