Listen to the past:

When I was a young boy, my father took me to the city of Johannesburg for the first time. As an impressionable eight year old I was captivated by the giant machine operating around me. I remember what he told me about the changing world I saw around me. 'Everyone here is making a change, you are part of that change and you can make it good change or you can make it bad change.'

I haven't been to the city of Johannesburg for many years, it's not the city I remember. It's a fallen city, bad change claimed it over time. I don't remember when last I traveled to Johannesburg, I don't need to go there to know its ruin. That was the legacy of my father, the past. I've posted a lot about my legacy that I leave to my children, the sad reality is they will never experience Johannesburg as I did. I'm not sure what I'm building as my legacy, sad to think it won't include parts of my lineage history. I can best retell and record those stories. Beyond the documented failures of the current government, social agreements and gradual decline of a country into ruin the common goal remains greed. Describe South African priorities today; cock and booze, having unpacked the anatomy of this thing I've realized this is not part of my legacy. You cannot fix anything choosing to remain broken, not by acceptable standards. Conflict resolves. I'm moving on. What really grinds my gears is the general ignorance in the aftermath, things failed because we wanted it that way and now it's OK to start from zero because everyone wanted that. What the fuck kind of logic is that?

Woke logic, according to a millennial reality works like Minecraft, exactly like it. You just break it down and rebuild for like 100 days. Now I, the Gen X fossil am not one to argue with an idiot, I avoid them like covid. Instead I decided in a head to head challenge; they play Minecraft online while I play the OG real-time version of Minecraft many of us refer to as life. Life, the reality based MMORPG on open world platform starts on level HARD, oh yes you spawn in on day 1 an infant and only really get established twenty odd years later as you struggle to live before you die. So be fair we're playing a 100 day challenge to see who makes greater progress. Arguably this sounds closer to The Sims, but all the kids these days are Minecrafting...

Thus far I'm winning, my point being life experience trumps digital garbage. Yes it's hard labour, there is failure, you do not respawn, other people lie, cheat and steal after all this is real life and there is no app for it. 

I do see something of a digital legacy formed in memes, the vehicle for teaching history to the millennial muppets. Have I surrendered on my return to Johannesburg, perhaps. Perhaps the city I first experienced changed into the city pixelated online. History is old, old is not a concept for the millennial generation.