I wish my uncle was like that.
Instead I'm stuck with a flat-earther and pseudo-historian conspiracy theorist.
Oof. I blame the lead water pipes from the 80s and earlier. Not even kidding. Definitely had some effect on my older family members once they mentally checked out starting traditional retirement age. Suggested to my dad that he take some classes if he was bored, and he straight up told me that he was done with learning. It wasn't even four months later that he started down the conspiracy shit. Me being lgbtq+, we can't even talk now because he can't control his mouth (like mentally, you can see it in his eyes, it's heartbreaking) and doesn't have anything to talk about except whatever Fox-Facebook-Qanon slush combo he's digested.
My uncle doesn't follow western media, not even Fox or QAnon, and balkan Facebook is much less crazy than western Facebook. In fact, my uncle is kinda anti-Western. Certainly anti-German and to a somewhat lesser extent anti-Anglo. Flat-Earth aside, most of his conspiracy theories, including all of the pseudo-histories, are of the Serbist school of pseudo-history and conspiricism.
Take your parents to concerts, museums, libraries, and encourage continuous learning, folks. Take a community college course together during a weeknight (many will let you audit(?) them for free). Anything to keep them interested in life and intellectually stimulated. Mental decline is absolutely no joke, and there are predators in the media that are always gunning to take advantage of that.
What with my mother being a teacher and my dad being huge into history, and with both at times engaging in conversations with me and others to learn from each other, I think they would be very much down for that (if we can afford it)
Besides, there's way too much good music out there nowadays to not go experience it!!
Yeah. Unfortunately most of the newer music they get exposed to nowadays is stuff neither I nor much of my family really like, despite the music's popularity with much of my generation, so they generally tend to go for stuff ranging from the 70s to the 2000s, while I find newer songs that are sadly more obscure here, even if such music may be popular internationally or at least in certain online communities.
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