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The 2010’s — The Decade of Hope
The 2010’s — the Decade of Hope
By Jane Tawel
December 27, 2019
The autopsies on the past decade that are currently filling the newspapers and social media platforms range from “unraveling” to “intrusive” to “anxious” to “rage-inducing” and epitaphs much worse, including those using words unprintable here. And these opinion makers are so right, that this morning, I found myself thinking: “I cannot possibly get any more depressed and ungrateful and unhopeful about the future than I already am.” And like so many people today, I too, find that lately, my views on my country, the world, the planet, my friends and foes, and myself are colored most often by the haters and naysayers. I don’t remember having the undercurrents of depression and angst and Müdigkeit der Weltthat aka world weariness, that I have had so often recently, probably not since I was a hormonal, angsting pre-teen. But as the decade winds down, and we approach the serendipitously named year of 2020, maybe we all need to switch out our gray colored glasses, and put on a rosier tint. We need some hope ‘round here, ya’all.
I do not for a minute believe that we should feel hopeful despite the truth of what it seems we humans have devolved to — more often zombie than human, more of us reduced to animals than elevated to higher beings, more of our…
