I was way off point about the Redskins. I apologise for that. I was trying to make sense of Sam's original and subsequent posts.
Enough is a beautiful thing. I have spent a lifetime trying to live in the light of it, fighting upwards in times of too little and saying "no thank you" in times of too much. Current consumerism appals me. The thing is, living according to those precepts is all very well, but pointing it out is, as I have lately discovered to my tearful cost, "virtue signalling".
Is that being "butt-hurt"? I have foundered before on terminology, clinging to the moving staircase of it: CHUDs, Narcs and Bozos - I try not to qualify.
I could howl for the best minds of the later generations but I will just have to trust them. Trust is the farmer in Steeple Bumpstead when I was a child who always put a barrel of surplus apples at his gate at this time of year with a placard, "Help Yourself". It's my Grandmother holding my wrist - "two's enough; one for now and one for later".
It's all falling apart. We will perish in wars over resources long before we drown. Enough is not a concept that has much hold on the minds of the multitude, Enough is all we need. In principle.
But please don't call me a Boomer. I'm not a Boomer. I am of different generation and am sorry for being Silent.
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