Basic principles don't change, people do! (#1164)

The argument that as we get older we get more conservative is a trap. it is a ruse for those of us who hold our principles dear to abandon them because it is natural. It is not natural to abandon those principles that have defined our character. It is shameful for those who otherwise say that getting older is above our sense of justice. For the sake of convenience and maintaining power, those who advocate for a more selfish outlook, are not admitting the truth of our principles, they are instead trying to remake them to fit their narrative of whatever ulterior motive is of late, fashionable. The manipulative powers some hold on others is regrettable and unworthy of our advancement through time and space. What can be so disheartening is that no great promise of enduring pride is the outcome. Instead all there is can be classified as some getting over on many others. Advancing selfishness and greed as a by-product of the human experiment. Such low abilities we allow ourselves to be funneled toward, like unwitting naive's, happily trusting judgments that fail on the "looking under the rock" test of their logic. I suppose that the reality of our inability to judge for ourselves the philosophical and moral attitudes we allow as societal norms is what we should expect from ourselves and any high minded enlightenment is just a mirage to sate our curious natures. Disappointment is what usually awaits us when we do not commandeer the reins of our own thoughts and give the intuition, assuredly, we all most insightfully hope for. What the future of our society and even our very existence will hinge upon is whether we are able to think for ourselves and keep our principles front and center for the full length of our individual existences.