Upgrade Now!!!

Did you ever notice how many times one has to upgrade things with the new technology. You have to upgrade Facebook, Twitter, your apps, email. Everything that we now own has to be constantly upgraded. I mean if you have a three year old computer people laugh at you, like “what are you doing with that piece of crap?” Piece of crap it’s only three years old.

The truth is that this technological world is being run by a bunch of twenty and thirty somethings. They sit behind a screen and constantly think of doing things better, faster and smarter, not to mention another way to make people spend money. The truth is they run our lives and the people that don’t upgrade are left behind and laughed at. My great nieces are always laughing at me because I haven’t upgraded fast enough. I mean, how can I upgrade when I didn’t know there was an upgrade available?

After one such Uncle ridicule session, I started thinking about upgrades. I started thinking that people need upgrades every so often also. I look at middle aged and older people and I realized that most of them haven’t upgraded since they were 25. Let’s face it the world has changed exponentially in the last 30 or 40 years. I’ve tried to keep up and for the most part I’m doing pretty well. I’ve changed my hairdo, my clothes, my beard and certainly my attitude to fit the times, but I know many people my age and younger who are still mentally back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.

Have you even checked out the people who run our government? I watch the news constantly and I often wonder who these people are. They are people who haven’t upgraded in years and they are running a country in which 68% of the people are under 44. No wonder young voters are turned off.

Let’s take my great friend Harry Reid, for example. I must add that I am a life long Democrat, so that does cloud my thinking on political issues, but Dear Harry was quoted as referring to Black Americans as “colored”. Now this may seem like a small issue and maybe he isn’t a racist, but when the hell has he last upgraded? Colored is a 1950’s term. He’s the head of the Senate? He’s making decisions that effect 68% of the population that are under 44. If he hasn’t upgraded on this, what the hell else hasn’t he upgraded on?

Check out the hair do’s on these people. They haven’t upgraded since the 50’s or 60’s. Forget about their shoes, I’m sure they are still wearing wing tips. I frequent many cigar parlors to enjoy an infrequent cigar and I am appalled at what I see and hear there. Most of the men are younger than me as I see them wearing Vietnam Veteran shirts. The talk is the same talk that I heard in the 50’s. The N word is thrown around as if we were still in slave times. The discussion about women is misogynist to say the least. These people vote and they have never upgraded. They vote in people just like them.

Now, I don’t think that age is the factor. If you upgrade your computer or car you can keep it going for a long time. So a person, no matter what age, is upgradeable. The will and the knowledge of the importance to do so is what is necessary. Get yourself a new pair of shoes and a new haircut for a start. At least check out Lady Gaga Gaga because believe me, whether you believe it or not, she is the new Sinatra. Get used to it. They, the young ones, set the agenda, no matter who is in power in
Washington.


UPGRADE NOW!!!