No, I did not spell “preying” incorrectly. I just watched a Stefan Molyneux video about Harvey Weinstein. If you are familiar with current events, you know that this movie producer has been exposed as a sexual predator of young women (surprise, surprise). What infuriated Stefan was that the left, knew about Harvey all along, yet praised him repeatedly. Harvey had helped the Democratic party repeatedly over the years. Stefan’s main point was that how can we trust people who “virtue signal” repeatedly about women’s issues, when they are ignoring a sexual predator in their midst? I have understood this myself for years, that people on the left are “hypocrisy challenged”. It was however a point that he made just before the end of his video that really opened my eyes!

He made the point that the old have been preying on the young forever. I believe that this is absolutely true. His points:

• Old men and now women seek out young people to satisfy their sexual urges. They use their accumulated resources to do so. They offer gifts, opportunities, and favors to get young people to have sex with them.
• Old men and now women use young people to fight their battles for them. The old get to settle old scores at the expense of the lives and vitality of young people.

All this makes me realize that, as an old man, that I wish to be young again. I am constantly frustrated with my inability to do things that I want to do, primarily because of old age. The temptation is to live vicariously through an young person. BUT, God wants me to support the young, to help them succeed and, most importantly, diminish myself to their benefit. I sometimes find this difficult.

After all, my desires for fame and fortune have not gone away. I still want to make my impact on the world. Problem is, my opportunity to do so is slipping away while I fight with old age. God wants me to help young people with my resources (asking nothing in return!) while I still want to be rich and famous.

Fortunately, I do not have the temptations of a man like Harvey Weinstein. As an old man, with considerable resources, he CAN tempt young women to sleep with him to get a part in his next film. I do not have these kinds of resources, and I thank God for that! So while it is easy to judge Harvey Weinstein, I wonder how many of US would do the same in his shoes?

Diminishing oneself to benefit the young (or the anointed) is a biblical principal. God asked John the Baptist to diminish himself for the benefit of Jesus. While the difference in their ages was not much, John the Baptist was older than Jesus.

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:30)

It is the same with me, I must decrease, but the young I am involved with, must increase, most notably, my own children.

The temptation is to keep my resources to myself, and use them for my own gain. God wants me to use them to benefit the young and the anointed. Harvey Weinstein used his resources to trap young women, I must used mine to benefit my children and those anointed by God, asking nothing in return.

What is interesting, is that helping my kids and the anointed, is not really that difficult! All I have to do is realize my time is past, and the young around me, their time is NOW. I am fighting old age, they are young and vibrant. It becomes an exercise in reality and accepting it.

In the end, people like Harvey Weinstein are FOOLS. The reality is, their time is over, and the time for young people is at hand.