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What if 2020 isn’t the “bad year” but it’s the start of a bad decade?

So I’m NOT the only one that thinks this. Yeah this whole decade is most likely fucked.

Well, fuck

We’re on a steep downward trajectory that was preordained since before any of us were born.

Global capitalism is sprinting headfirst into the harsh realities of resource limitations and environmental degradation.

“Normal” is over. It’s all downhill from here.

I mean in truth 2020 isn’t THAT bad of a year. Yeah, it’s sucked in comparison to the last decade or so, but we’ve had worse stretches. The Great Depression made this seem like a cake walk. 2001 was a pretty rough year, if you’ll recall. And 2002 wasn’t a whole lot better. There was a housing collapse in the mid-late ’00s. I remember, because my mom actually lost her house during that time and I was still a kid living with her. We’ve had pandemics before, we’ll have them again. Life ain’t that bad yet.

Buuuuut… you raise a good question. What if this is only the beginning? Biden appears to be on track to win the election. What happens if somehow Trump subverts the will of the people? Becomes a full-on dictator? Or what if Biden gets to take office but the economy continues to spiral downward anyway? What if COVID is just the first in a long line of new viruses that just get worse and worse? What if a year from now a bunch of lunatics are walking up and down our streets with a meat wagon, ringing a bell, and shouting “BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!” What if our relationship with North Korea deteriorates under a Biden administration and Kim Jong Un nukes Blacksburg, South Carolina? What if Jason Voorhees is real and he takes Manhattan? What if 3 years from now the American Dollar is worth 0.000001 cent and bread is $16 a loaf? What if a comet the size of the one that killed the dinosaurs is just behind Saturn and on its way here right now?

Lordy, I need a Xanax. Thanks for stressing me out.

Tbh…my thoughts are: 2020 feels like a prequel to >!the hunger games!<