Adam and Eve killed the dinosaurs – The Sopris Sun

Are you on Threads? It’s like Twitter (X), except no one seems to be monitoring the content, which is completely random and fabulous! Threads has everything a GenXer could want: political memes, cat videos, sarcastic social criticism followed by Grandma’s secret family recipe for handmade ravioli. Here’s an example of a typical Threads post:
“What if there was water on Mars because we once lived there and messed up the climate so much that we had to send an escape pod to Earth with only Adam and Eve in it, and the pod was the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs?” – blackspielberg_
That. That’s the kind of imaginative musing that makes me like us humans. And as tired as I am of our patriarchal view of history, I love it when I come across something truly unconventional. Something or someone so far from the norm gives me hope for the future of all humanity. I’m lucky not to have kids, but if I did, you can be sure they’d be learning how to build a hut and grow, harvest, and distill potatoes for Mom’s vodka martini. Even as unfettered as I am, it’s still hard to see what we’re doing to this planet – not to mention each other’s children.
Speaking of kids, why can’t we just love them for the silly little monsters they are? Who cares if they want to play with a truck or wear a dress or play with a truck while wearing a dress… This gender issue really gets on my nerves. It reminds me of middle school when I was passed a piece of paper in class (don’t get caught!) and had to unfold it (quietly!) about eight times just to have a choice between two boxes: yes or no. What a boring life if we had to go through life with only two choices. In my experience, most of life is a spectrum and the whole point is to try the whole hodgepodge – always with consent! (I shouldn’t even have to say that by now, but you know.)
There is something for everyone here on Earth, and we only get into trouble when we suppress our natural inclinations or desires because of an outdated, preconceived notion, most likely invented by some repressed and unhappy pilgrim. Shame is a terrible nanny. If they aren’t hurting anyone, then what exactly is the problem with experimental adolescents? Why are some adults so concerned with conforming to the norm? A norm, I might add, that has brought us here.
The natural balance of healthy life on Earth is seriously disrupted and I can see nothing about our current situation that inspires confidence in our sustainability. In fact, it feels like we are hurtling through the cosmos like a sequel to the Roaring Twenties, unaware that a crash is imminent. You have to admit, if you had just landed on Earth right now, it would seem chaotic and confusing, to say the least. (Side note: I’ve been thinking about writing a handbook for the planet, with chapter headings like “Don’t eat chicken that comes in a bucket” and “Beware anyone who claims to be a ‘man of the people.'”)
Hopefully, the younger generations are less susceptible to the charms of quacks. At least they seem less interested in checking off a gender box and more interested in learning how to grow food in the nutrient-poor soil they inherited. When the economy collapses and we start rebuilding the country’s infrastructure, their relaxed adaptability will surely come in handy. And Generation X is more than ready to bring the old back to old age. Enough of this 70-year-young nonsense; we’re going back to the days when we spent most of the afternoon and evening sitting in a rocking chair on the porch…
Trust us: Being self-sufficient and disillusioned with authority from a young age is handy because it allows us to make do with what we have and appreciate the simple things in life. Things like a good science fiction story about life on Earth after an asteroid strikes.