Onan Ivory by Alan Elyshevitz
Car colors are serious business. We used to have all sorts of wild colors, from ruby red to hot pink. Today, in our modern life, everything is in shades of off-white and gray. Somehow, out of all the futures we could have chosen for ourselves, we picked the most monochromatic one. Note that when there were more car colors to choose from, there was generally more creativity. Thinking loudly and boldly was in. Out was anything that restricted sight, that set too harsh of perimeters. Our time for pulling that back, wrestling it from decades of compounded bad decisions, is too much. You have likely heard of interest compounding, but decisions also compound. A false move is not just a false move, but every move after that, making the mistake that much worse. No vote was held to let this happen; it simply occurred because nobody opposed it. Most evil occurs not from outwardly evil folks but from good people standing by.
Toddlers like bright colors. We had to design our world for the young. The needs of the elderly often define an aging society. Bright colors offend the sensibilities of older people. Instead of anything too bright, which might hurt their delicate sensibilities, we have succumbed to the tyranny of the elderly. Far too many elderly people have far too much money, and they use that money for ill repute. Old folks exist, but there is something deeply depressing about living in a rapidly aging world, one that seems to lose creativity every single year. Rather than figuring out a way around these massive problems, we muddle through. Neville Chamberlain was described as seeing the world through the wrong end of a municipal pipe. That was according to the quick-witted Winston Churchill, a guy who gets a lot of praise despite his chronic alcoholism and inability to win an election after World War II. We could solve the world’s problems, but that does not appear to be profitable enough.
Our cars are supposed to be profitable, at least. Everything is expensive. Inflation has eaten away the life savings of many people. We deserve better. I am unsure how to achieve this, but perhaps creating a culture unique to our families and us is the best way to do so. The squirrels of the world are great examples of how to build community, and they have done it without any need for currency. At least squirrels have more color variants than our automobiles, doubly tragic given we have taken Henry Ford’s axiom “they can have it in any color they want, as long as it is black” to heart.
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