I've always wondered why we regard older people and people that have been dead a long time great. Especially in regards to our relatives. We have a mom and a dad then we GRANDparents. Just like your own parents, only grand. Why are they grand? What's so grand about being old? Ask any old person and they'll tell you being old fuckin' sucks. Is that why they're grand? They can deal with being old? It's a little aspect of our language that I don't understand. We do have alternate names to describe generations but no one really uses those terms much. Hell, I still don't know what generation I am, Generation X? Generation Y? Star Trek the next Generation? Fuck.
Grandma and grandpa, just like your parents, only grand. I'm sorry, but there is nothing grand about my grandparents. They're my family, I love them, but grand is not an adjective I would ever use to describe them if I had a choice of terminology. Especially my grandpa, whose cheese has been off the cracker a long time. Grand is word mainly used to describe something big, large, or grand in size. Like the Grand Canyon, or you pay a hundred grand for something.
As if this weren't confusing enough if you go to the next level you have great grandparents. Parents who are both great and grand and the same time. This is really perplexing to me because from what I know of my Great Grandparents they were far from Great, and no where near grand. Then you go to the even more dead relatives after that, you have your Great Great grandparents, then your Great Great Great Grandparents. Why do these people get an increase in greatness the longer they're dead? I mean I know I wouldn't exist without them but that hardly makes them great. They could be assholes for all I know!
All I can gather from this is that the more dead you are the greater you'll be. It's a concept alot of religious fanatics take to heart. I think alot of it comes from our fear of death. We're afraid death is going to suck, so we try to give death a bit of pizzazz and attempt to make it sound better. Like when someone dies and he's just a fuckin prick, I mean an asshole that really is better off dead. If you went to his funeral you'd think he was a saint, why? Because we have a hard time excepting the fact that death fuckin sucks and we don't want to think badly of those who are dead. But for all we know death can be fun! I mean you can't really know because death is not a place you can go and come back to tell people about(though that would be cool, flatliners bitches!)
But mostly I'm irritated with having to use this language and have to call my descendants great or grand. I'm irritated because this can be an opportunity to have some creative fun! Like coming with a unique name for your grandparents, customized to their personality! It would make distinguishing between the two families easier and how fun would that be? I would have a crazyma and an Insanitypa! You can put in any adjective that fits their character. Like the Decent-enoughpa, or my personal favorite, Deadpa!
Seems extreme, I know, but anything to get away from this greatness that these people get for no reason. I mean my great-Grandparents weren't great. In fact they were quite irresponsible. It also comes down to this mentality that the older are wiser, bullshit. This is a load of crap desgined to destroy the self-esteem of our current generation.
They always like to say "When I was at that age we were disciplined and respected our teachers." Bullshit! At best you may get someone to say, "Well, we did some stuff too but not as bad as this!" Really? Do you actually believe that? If so then explain this to me. Alot of grandparents are married because they accidentally got pregnant when they were really young. In fact, my great grandmother had my grandfather at the age of 15. Yet our grandparents will badger us about how terrible and hedonistic our generation is. It's a big load crap that is meant to keep the current generation low on self-esteem. Why else do you think we have a rise in Suicides, Anorexia, and Eating disorders? Because according to our grandparents, our morals have gone down the sewer. And now kids at the age of 15 are having unprotected sex, and getting pregnant, that never happened back in my day!
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