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Stop Waiting for 2021
There’s an animated series I watch on YouTube called peopleWatching. In the first episode of the second season the recurring characters talk about the dreaded year that was 2017.
Partisanship, tribalism, inequality en masse, personal issues and personal ignorance characterized the talking points of the characters. But they all said what we the audience had been thinking.
And while their reflections triggered a new perspective which they believed would help them through 2018 and beyond, right now in 2020, I am somewhat pessimistic.
I’m pessimistic because I keep hearing people talk about how bad 2020 is and how they can’t wait for 2021.
Throughout the episode, the characters mentioned one societal grievance after another that stemmed from an issue dating back decades.
All the issues I listed above have a history that has rippled throughout the planet for eons. Our problems are not new but merely in a different format for a new generation.
The printing press and the internet both provide access to information and unfortunately misinformation. Politicians are hired to represent the people and do everything but. The wealthy lose a fraction of their fortune, so the poor have to lose their life savings. The generational trauma of a people continues to wreak havoc in their lives and in…
