The Elders Of The World Are Being Lost Right Now

Hello everyone!

I hope that you're doing amazing wherever you are in the world.

My name is Bhoomshakha and I wanted to do a video here because you can see the different colors of the trees behind me.

There's red,

There's yellow,

There's green,

There's orange.

It's just gorgeous.

In this video,

I wanted to speak to you about a concept that's been kind of bouncing around in my head for the last few days.

I started thinking about it as I was falling asleep and I woke up thinking about it as well so I knew that it was important.

And so I had to speak about it.

That's usually how my videos go.

I fall asleep thinking about it.

I'm like,

Hmm,

I should really do a video on it.

And then I wake up and I'm like,

Oh,

I'm still thinking about it.

Okay,

Good.

Let's do this video.

Let's write it down before we forget about it.

The concept that's been running around my head is an unfortunate situation right now that's going on around in the world.

But let's start with a story first or an idea or an epithet.

I was reading recently.

I'm actually fascinated by indigenous cultures,

By native cultures,

By any kind of culture that hasn't been that has been completely contaminated by the Western civilization.

And so obviously there's a lot of good in there.

And if we could just hold on to some of these indigenous cultures and not contaminate them and actually learn from them,

We could completely change the face of this planet.

But of course,

What we do is we go in and we we commit cultural genocide.

You know,

We kind of inculcate them or bring them into the Western civilization and ask them or force them sometimes to get rid of all of their beautiful cultural traditions and all of the different things they do with their lives.

And one of the things I was reading about the way native cultures deal with older people,

Elderly people.

It's something that I really wish that we would as a civilization,

As a modern civilization learn from.

And one of the things that I read that was so beautiful,

It made me cry,

Is that,

You know,

They kind of in a particular culture,

What they do is that they I think it's an aborignal culture,

But I'm not sure.

So don't quote me on that.

I have all these kind of ideas in my head and I'm like,

I don't know where I got that from,

But I think it's true.

So basically,

The idea is that they kind of as soon as there's a grandchild that's born in a family,

They kind of pair up the grandchild with the grandfather.

And the idea is that the grandfather is going to be going to the realm of the dead or the afterlife soon.

And he's going to need some information from the grandchild who just came from that realm because he just came.

He was just born.

So he was just in that afterlife or that middle Bardo stage in between lives.

And so he has some information from that stage and he is able to convey that subconsciously or in a conscious manner,

However it's done to the grandfather who is going there soon.

Right.

And who needs that information.

Not only that,

But I mean,

It's so beautiful.

I don't you think it's so beautiful?

I just love that.

But not only that,

There is this idea in native cultures that elderly people are actually the most precious of all of the people that are present because they hold all of the knowledge of the civilization,

Of that culture.

Right.

They're the ones who've lived.

They're the ones who have wisdom.

They have all the knowledge,

All the stories,

All of the medicine,

All of the information about nutrition and all the different information that you would need in order for the civilization to keep on going.

So in our culture,

In Russian culture,

Obviously,

As you might know,

We kind of idolize youth.

We idolize beauty and youth and kind of are disdainful a little bit of the senior population or the elderly population.

They're already done.

We can't dismiss them.

We put them into homes.

We let them rot away there.

Like we don't talk to them.

We don't ask them questions.

We don't bring them in to talk to them about their wisdom.

We don't get anything from them in terms of any knowledge.

We just let all of that knowledge go to waste and we just let it go somehow.

Whereas the native cultures are very particular and very careful,

Also,

I guess,

Because they don't have the internet or things like that.

But they were careful because they know that the elderly people hold the knowledge,

They hold the language,

They hold the culture,

They hold all of this information about the stars and the astrology and the energy structures and the waves and the oceans.

All of that information is in their heads.

And obviously,

A lot of times in native cultures,

It's kind of passed down from one generation to another by oral traditions,

Right?

Orally,

They speak about the stories,

They tell the stories and that's how one culture knows about it or one generation knows about it and the next generation knows about it.

So it kind of passes down through oral traditions.

Now,

Of course,

Now we have written traditions,

We're able to write stuff down.

So we don't actually have to be like,

Well,

Tell me the story of when that happened.

No,

You can write it down.

But literally still,

There are some nuances that are probably lost when you just write stuff down,

When you're not sitting in front of the person who actually lived through it and you can't get that really like that depth to it.

You know,

You can't get that nuance to it.

So you kind of miss out on a lot,

I believe,

By dismissing the elderly as we do in our culture and putting them into homes,

Letting them rot away or die.

And particularly right now,

There is a huge gap in knowledge right now or wisdom because,

As you might imagine,

A lot of the elderly people are being lost because of the coronavirus pandemic.

And again,

I see this in a lot of the comments that I get from Americans particularly is that,

Well,

Most of the people who die were elderly anyway,

They were going to die anyway.

So what the hell?

Does it really matter?

Well,

It's fine.

You know,

75 percent of them were about the age of 65 or,

You know,

They give me all these stats.

I'm just sitting there thinking,

Do you have no regard for the value or the wisdom that you've just lost through the 200,

000 Americans that have died who are perhaps elderly or not all elderly,

But some of them?

Like,

Do you not realize that there was knowledge and wisdom and all of this goodness that was stored in their minds and their bodies and their in their psyches that is completely gone now?

It's completely lost because they're gone because of this pandemic.

Not that I'm saying that it might not have happened anyways.

I'm just saying that there is this lack of this complete disregard for the elderly population,

Not realizing that they hold knowledge,

They hold wisdom.

They hold the key sometimes to things that were like,

Well,

I wish I knew how to do this.

Well,

Maybe ask a grandmother.

Right.

Maybe she's already learned it.

Maybe ask the elderly people in your community.

Well,

Unfortunately,

A lot of people,

A lot of us live in places where we don't have a community.

We don't have any elderly people around us.

We don't have any people who have any kind of wisdom of knowledge,

Like past wisdom,

Past knowledge at all.

And so we're just sitting there thinking,

I guess I'll just go on the Internet.

Yeah,

You can go on the Internet.

Obviously,

There's a lot of knowledge on there.

But is there wisdom?

Is there like inculcated depth and wisdom in all the information that you're going to get from there?

Is it the same as sitting by your grandfather or by an elderly person and having them tell you the stories of the past?

Yeah.

And so for me,

I feel like there is a huge loss here.

There's a huge gap here and the gap is going to get bigger and bigger because apparently it seems like it's OK.

It's OK.

Well,

They were over the age of 75.

It doesn't really matter.

We're already done living their life.

Well,

Maybe.

Yeah,

They're done living their life,

But they wouldn't be if you actually integrated them into society and then treat them like the pariahs that the Americans treat.

A lot of Western civilization treats their elderly people like.

It's like,

Well,

They're old.

They're not going to do anything of value.

They're not in the capitalistic system anymore because they're not working anymore.

So what's the point?

Let them just die.

It's OK.

Right now,

Obviously,

I'm being a little bit more harsh towards the situation,

But maybe not really,

Because it seems like if you're not producing in the capitalistic culture,

If you're not making money,

If you're not in the economy already,

If you're not kind of doing that,

Then you're not you're useless.

What's the point of you?

Yeah.

Just get just go out and get rid of you.

All of those people who don't actually produce.

Right.

And of course,

One of the the sector,

One of the populations that fall into that category are the elderly population because once they retire,

Well,

You know,

What are they going to do?

They're just going to travel a bit and then they're going to die.

It doesn't matter anyways.

The only people we're concerned about are the youth,

The young people,

Because they're like idolized and then the people in their 20s and 30s because they're producing and the people in their 40s and 50s because they're accumulating and buying things.

And that's it.

After you get to the age of 60,

Like who cares about you kind of thing,

Right?

And I was kind of watching this snippet or this skit from this elderly,

You know,

She wasn't even elderly,

An older woman.

I think she's in her 60s.

And she's funny because she's a comedian and she was standing on stage.

She's like,

You know,

Everyone can everyone see me?

Is everyone can can everyone see that I'm standing here on the stage?

And the stage is like,

Yeah,

We can see you.

And she's like,

Oh,

Good.

Thank God.

Because apparently women become invisible after they turn 60 or even after they turn 50.

And there's this general sense of invisibility with regards to elderly people,

Because after a while you don't notice that they're there.

Oh,

If you're young.

Yeah,

Beautiful.

Awesome.

Let me look at you.

If you're old.

Well,

It doesn't really matter anyways.

What's the point of you?

What are you doing with your life?

Just go on already.

Go on and die so you can actually take all the resources and use it for something else.

Right now,

Again,

I'm being a bit harsh,

But I feel like that's the general sense I get from a lot of the conversations I'm having with people who are like,

Well,

It doesn't really matter anyways.

All the people who die were old.

There's a lot of knowledge in that.

That was lost.

That's a lot of wisdom.

That's a lot of culture,

A lot of history,

A lot of stuff in their heads that we've lost in their bodies that we've lost because of this general disdain for elderly people.

So I wanted to share this idea with you.

It's not a brilliant or logical or not a logical,

I mean original idea.

It's not very original,

Obviously.

The native people have always,

Always been thinking about this.

But I wanted to share this with you because I really got a sense of it from having conversations with people and thinking,

Well,

Yeah,

It's only the older people who are dying.

It's fine.

As long as it doesn't touch the young people,

It's okay.

Well,

I don't know about that that much.

I really don't because in a lot of native cultures,

It's the elderly people who are saved first because they're the ones who hold the keys,

The knowledge,

The traditions.

If the younger people die,

It's not so much of a loss.

But if the older people die,

It's a big loss.

Maybe we're not living in a traditional native culture,

But still the loss of knowledge and wisdom is still there,

I believe.

We're still experiencing that gap right now unless we stop,

Unless we stop and realize,

Oh,

Yeah,

No,

We should really do something about this pandemic because it's killing people.

It doesn't matter if they're elderly or not.

That's just my opinion.

I'm sure you're all going to disagree with it,

But that's okay.

You know,

I'd love to see what your comments are on the situation and what you think about it.

If you have any questions about this,

Obviously let me know as well.

Again,

Thank you so much for listening,

For being on my channel,

And I shall see you the next time around.

Bye for now.