Contrasting Views Of American Youth

And the future of the country

screenshot by author (This is a mural of the Notorious RBG painted on the side of a building at 11th Street and 1st Avenue in New York City in commemoration of her accomplishments.)

To many Medium readers (and definitely the staff curators), I strike the group in total as a lowlife. I made a fortune selling advertising to prostitutes. I didn’t pay taxes on the income and went to prison. While locked up, I hung out with Paul Manafort, Jeffrey Epstein, and a guy named Nicolas Gibson, who claimed he’d murdered 32 people. I chose them because they either had brains and/or (in two cases) it was my job to hang out with them (on suicide watch).

But the truth is that I’m not really a total lowlife. I have my intellectual and educated side. I might have my shortcomings — but I’m not a thoughtless idiot.

So yesterday, I was entertaining myself in the usual fashion, which includes writing some, reading some (currently I’m in the middle of “Of Human Bondage”), and watching some.

There were two movies I found that opened my eyes. The first I found on Pornhub. I can’t possibly remember the title. But it was shot very stylishly — noir though in full color — and portraying youth which worships everything pop culture.

Dressed in all the gear of the day, and boasting a svelte and smooth body, the female lead was that girl who would turn every head. Her…