We used to be them. Until some (not very smart ones) among us got way too complacent and decided things would always be this way.
But things changed pretty soon. Social media happened, and it took over everything. Changed the way we communicated, making present forms of communication obsolete and present-day communicators unkles.
Unkle didn't like change, he never had. Change made him uncomfortable, because adapting to something new meant disrupting a current system. Breaking the wheel, in GoT terminology.
Unkle's condition didn't not allow it. "No," the condition said, nodding its head, "not gonna happen. Stick with the present system, defend it, fight for it, it'll survive."
But the coolios were a cool bunch, na. They came along and shoved their coolness into everyone's faces. If you weren't covered in the cool they shovelled, you weren't cool at all, and therefore an unkle.
So the unkle system went away, because unkles could not defend their system. And the privileges that came with that system slowly started to be bestowed upon the coolio system.
Travel, free stuff, lots of bhav.
The coolio system came as a welcome respite for people banking on the unkle system, because the unkles, admittedly, were getting more and more difficult to work with. Once a system is established, and things get comfortable within that system, it's tough to change.
But the more difficult change seems, the more inevitable it is slowly becoming.
It is coming for you, if you're revelling in the system, very very slowly at first. But it will swoop down on you like a preying hawk and pick you up by its claws, and soar high up and drop you down like a little pithy mouse.
Before you know it, a bunch of coolios are where you used to be, setting up a new coolio system that is far easier and better.
15 years later you think back on the privileges the system bestowed upon you, for however little time, and you lament and moan.
If only you'd had the foresight to become a coolio soon enough. If only you hadn't defended the unkle system.
But it doesn't end there, because history repeats itself. The pattern will present itself again, soon enough, giving another bunch of people the chance to become coolios and relegating the current crop of coolios to obsolescence.
What currently is that aspect where a sense of complacence seems to be setting in? What is the coolio system lacking?
Unkle's gotta figure this shit out.
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