Well we all do, but I definitely remember similar attitudes towards 2016. I think it's due to the things that become normalized thanks to media, like climate change and third world horrors, that people don't realize the cause of these problems and instead think of each year disconnected from the next. We see problems, but isolate them from the causes, which are seen as "neutral" and "necessary ". Ultimately, it's the bourgeois comfort that allows us to be ignorant of things that accelerate while we sleep or go to work. You'll probably see this sentiment appear more frequently as things get worse and the intervals are closer each time.
I dont want to say everyone is like this, like yeah we all agree it's been a shit year. But its interesting to me that its getting more rapid. first it was 2001 (9/11), then 2008 (housing crash) then 2016 and now 2020.
Well we all do, but I definitely remember similar attitudes towards 2016. I think it's due to the things that become normalized thanks to media, like climate change and third world horrors, that people don't realize the cause of these problems and instead think of each year disconnected from the next. We see problems, but isolate them from the causes, which are seen as "neutral" and "necessary ". Ultimately, it's the bourgeois comfort that allows us to be ignorant of things that accelerate while we sleep or go to work. You'll probably see this sentiment appear more frequently as things get worse and the intervals are closer each time.
fair enough
I dont want to say everyone is like this, like yeah we all agree it's been a shit year. But its interesting to me that its getting more rapid. first it was 2001 (9/11), then 2008 (housing crash) then 2016 and now 2020.