Let's stop blaming 2020
I think it's fair to say the year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most trying and chaotic years in our lifetimes. But the year itself--2020-- is not the problem. It's us. It's humanity. Racism, climate change, a country with no plan to handle a pandemic, a threatened democracy, resorting to conspiracies because reality is too hard to accept, are not just happening because it's 2020. It's not the year. What we are all dealing with are systemic problems. It just so happens that 2020 is when everything came to a head. Like a great big zit. Popping a zit, Belushi Style If anything 2020 is doing us a big favor. 2020 is saying, "Yo, Humanity. WTF?! You've got some serious s&%t going on and you need to get your house in order. Regardless of what humanity does, time and the planet are moving forward, and we will leave you behind regardless if you aren't up for a change." Anyone banking on things miraculously changing for the better come