L.J.,

Thank you for reading and responding and I can just hear that you are as tired as I often feel.

I don't usually make it a generational thing, I'm kind of equal opportunity about thinking lots of people are jerks (I really have to work on this judge-y aspect of my personality), but we are kind of squished and forgotten. On the other hand, I do feel it was a MAJOR gift to grow up before the Internet. I just do. I actually do miss a world where I could leave the house to get away from the phone, that was always very freeing.

What I'm more mad about is how our system of health insurance pits all of us, no matter the generation, against each other. It's very hard to feel solidarity with anyone when you would kill someone and scramble over their dead body to beat them to a job with health insurance. I don't need a lot of cash to live, but everyone in my family has something going wrong currently, and there is not enough cash in the world to pay specialists what they charge these days without insurance. It's Mad Max: Beyond Health Insurance in this country.