Considering the choices, perhaps it is reasonable. These golden years are tainted already. Disgust and ridicule, ambivelence and vindication. By all indications it is a farce, a game, a petty episode of punked. Behind the WiFi, stuck on rewind.
Reaching forward, we have made amends and understand. Overall, we demand bribe grease reduction, money changing hands. Called negotiations between business or government interests, once personal accounts are involved, it's called bribery. Lard. Slippery slime slingers.
Between the news cycles, when the wine really sinks in, the envious scheme. Convinced of brilliance and counting on gullibility. Maximum peer pressure, the prospect of being unwoke. But the comedy is sour, laced with anger and shame. Suppose it's some signs of some times.