The year is over, and where did it bring you? With any luck, to a better understanding of how time, which passes, also remains still.
FDR knew something important about motivating the public. So did Adolf Hitler. The ad agency handling the Campbell's Soup account knew it, as did the Marx Brothers. Goebbels and Hearst were the same guy, tuned to different frequencies. Because history is a whore, the only thing we get to say about them is that one was on the winning side. The same battles are being fought forever, the same disasters and triumphs occur. It isn't that there is no human agency or will, it isn't that there is nothing that can be done. It's that it must always be done.
There is no end to this. We dream of the better place, and then allow our dreams to be captured. My dream of a better place is one where we know better then to let that happen, but I'm just as foolish as any other dreamer. After all, utopia means "no place".
So eat, drink, love, celebrate the passing of time in some way. It's what we always do .