Game Over, Dude

To be clear, I was born in 1983.  The Captain and Tennille were just a wee bit before my time, but over the years, I've always been aware of them in a vague sort of way.   Mainly for this song:



There's something nice about this song- it's comforting, it's happy- it's remarkably free of a lot of the nonsense and bullshit that seems to infect society today.  It's got a simple, easy, premise:  Love will keep us together.  It's a nice sentiment and in an age of cynicism and disillusionment, it's all too easy to laugh it.  But wouldn't it be nice to remember a time when maybe people actually believed that?  Wouldn't it be great to have life be that simple again?

In a culture obsessed with superficial bullshit and a news media more interested in entertainment that informing the public, there was something reliable and comforting about The Captain and Tennille.   They were always there.  They were that hatrack you can always hang some hope on:  no matter how much you thought the country might be increasingly resembling a dumpster fire, love will keep us together.  Right?

Wrong.  They're divorcing after 39 years of marriage and, as one commentator already noted:  Love is dead. It's hard not to feel that the foundations of the universe have been rocked ever so slightly on their axis and that we're all totally and utterly doomed.

If The Captain and Tennille can't make it?  Game over, dude.*

(However, I've decided that if, after an appropriate period of post-divorce whatever, Tennille marries an Admiral (retired or active) in the Navy, that would be amazing and awesome and might restore some hope to the universe at large.)

*After some consultation via FB, the Missus and I decided that if The Captain and Tennille can't make it, at least we can.   She decided, however, that I don't need a hat.