The World Has Moved On

I think I know what King meant when he used that phrase frequently in the Tower saga.

I wonder if what I've been feeling lately happens to all men when they reach certain age, or a stage in life?

I feel like the world has moved on.  Things have spiraled completely out of control to the point that they no long make anything resembling sense.  Public behavior has become something alien to me. It's easy to write it off as generational, things 'kids these days' do that shocks old fuddy duddy me, but I don't think it's that simple.

I can't think of a word for it outside of 'decay'.  Things have decayed.  Logic, reason, simple common sense...driven to ground like a hunted animal.  Not just ignored, but openly targeted by the forces of ignorance and stupidity.  Orwellian stuff: 2+2 doesn't = 4, because someone says so.

Reality is what it is...but more and more I see active, aggressive attempts to redefine it based on perception.  Schrodinger's Cat nonsense.  (In case you missed the boat on that one, if you put a cat in the box, IT'S STILL IN THE DAMN BOX unless someone took it out...your ability to observe it doesn't change a thing because you're not some all-powerful deity whose sense of sight dictates what does and doesn't exist.)

I'm at a loss as to how to approach such things.  I can't abide by them.  I mean, I can't pretend to go along with the insanity.  Real is still real, logic is still logical, reason still rules the world.  But society and culture continue the march of the fool, so what am I to do about it?

I used to think commentating on it would help, but that's been disproved by many years of failure. All platforms available to me to speak my viewpoint and attempt to educate are, effectively, karaoke: everyone comes to sing, nobody comes to listen.  I used to think, hey, if I did an audio show, or a video show, or some other media...but I know full well that won't change a thing.

Is this how it always is when you get old and wisdom finally catches up to you?  Did my forefathers also look out on their worlds as they aged and see madness?  Or is it really, truly getting worse?