Seeing the Light in Ottawa

I just realized after reading yet another lamentation for our loss of what we think of as normal, our "drive to work to pay for this car" way of life, that I don't want to go back to normal now.

Normal was stupid. Anti-social, not social. Competitive, not cooperative. And why have we allowed our governments to task us with saving for our individual retirements instead of insisting our governments guarantee us all the same good standard of living later while we put our resources to good use now?

Cripes, we've all witnessed how basic it actually is, old age: get up too early, have a few sips of coffee and a small bowl of porridge, complain about everything to anybody who will listen while waiting for lunch, eat a half sandwich with a glass of bone builder of some kind, snooze with the tv or radio blaring while waiting for happy hour, drink an alcoholic beverage, feel happy, eat the other half sandwich and a piece of pie, watch tv, go to bed too early, get up to pee two or three times in the night, repeat.

How did this become what we're all supposed to work to save our money for anyway?

By the way, our governments have had to do a 180 from attributing virtue to citizens who have paid employment to attributing virtue to citizens willing to forgo it - for the good of the many as opposed to the few (Spock in Wrath of Khan). And anyone with a brain can see that "flattening the curve" would go a lot smoother if we had a judgement free guaranteed basic income in place. So count me out for going back to normal and count me in for adapting away from it.