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2020 Was Not a Year, But a Long Moment
We are now fully internet people and the internet loves to wrap things up, year end lists are everywhere. Here’s a question: Why would you click on any “2020 Year in Review?” Do you really need any reminding of what we’ve just endured? For the record books? History already shows that we’ve stopped paying enough attention to history. As a species, it doesn’t seem as though we learn from the past, so much as select facts from it that are convenient for our narratives. But since history exists whether or not we refresh our memories or read, let’s acknowledge that as this year ends, at least we can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
2020 has seeped its way into us in a way no other year has. Don’t be a contrarian and claim it’s all happened before. Its unlikely if you’re reading this that you were alive during the Bubonic Plague or even alive in 1918. Ok, if you’re one of the many 102 year-olds who love reading words on the Internet, perhaps you were alive in 1918, but even if you are 105, you were only three years old during that 1918 epidemic and please don’t insist you have vivid memories of it. Many things are unimaginably bad and have happened to humans, but we are the humans alive right now, yes?
Yes, terrifying and very strange diseases and have attacked us humans before this one, but we are the only humans who have the technology to read…
