Posted on 12/11/2023 5:56:09 AM PST by week 71
The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene.
Try as I might, I cannot understand the last one. Regardless, it’s absolutely the case that there has been a dramatic turning of events and our lives. It’s not just national. It’s global and devastating.
I’m going with the Terrible Twenties.
Everyone seems to agree that this moniker applies, regardless of class or political leanings. You can take your pick of the symptoms: ill-health, inflation, political division, censorship, overweening state power, shabby political candidates, war, crime, homelessness, financial strain, dependency, learning loss, suicides, excess deaths, shortened lifespans, lack of trust, demographic upheaval, the purge of dissent, the threat of authoritarianism, mass incompetence, spread of crazy ideologies, lack of civility, fake science, corruption at all levels, middle class disappearance, and on and on ad infinitum.
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Easy one. This is the “Woke” Decade.
More than anything, we're experiencing stagnation in all areas except for maybe technology.
@ 41 Tragically - that seems fitting so far. We’ll see. May be that some Gen Z resists culture and see the foolishness dished out by corporations, Hollywood, MSM, academia ect. and sing a Buffalo Springfield song and angle to change direction.
Maybe by 2030. In the meantime, most movies are crap. That’s because of how woke we are.
-PJ
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