New Years a time to put away the past and look to the future for bigger & better things. As we close the year and the decade, I wish to say good damn riddance.
According to the good folks at Pew Research Center (apropos) after a measurement of various criteria they declared this the Worst Decade in 50 years.
Most of us did not require an in depth study to come to that conclusion. Beginning with the false predictions of Y2K. And culminating with the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. It truly was a terrible decade.
Somewhere in between we managed to find time to enter 2 wars, watch the demise of Saddam Hussein, followed by the demise of George W. Bush. We then elected our nations first African American president and commenced blaming him for the mess. He inherited an inflated economy, a Mortgage and banking system that was as inflated and ready to burst as an old bicycle inner tube. Though history may show he created one of his own. We bailed out banks, automakers & financial institutions like a bad relative from jail. Stimulus went from a term Masters& Johnson used to describe sexual arousal, to the term given to the Viagra of the nation’s economy. Good thinking, as we are all getting screwed. We have found our “realities“seem better on a Cable show than in real life.
Technology in the decade brought us the widespread use of Text messaging, cheap cell phone plans and high speed internet. We witnessed the advent of ending romance via text, virtual sex with amazing download speeds, and social networking via Facebook, Myspace and later, for the short attention span… Twitter. We created the first internet stalking lawsuit as adults soon tormented children on the social networks.
Blackberry’s and Palm pilots replaced conversation as the most likely event witnessed in Starbucks or other coffee shops. A new language was invented in order to fit our text & Tweeting lifestyles. LOL, LMAO & Smiley Icons replaced laughter and human emotion.
We witnessed the debate and signing in to law of the nation’s new healthcare plan, we bought American drugs cheaper from Canadian pharmacies. It became easier to achieve an erection via mail, than to renew your license at the local DMV.
E-mail has all but eliminated the need for the USPS. Seems the technology advances have passed by our government subsidized institutions like the postal service and DMV.
A trip to one of these bureaucratic & archaic hellholes finds few constituents LOLing, or LMAOing. But we entrust our government to administer our Nations healthcare.
It would be easy to blame all of this on my ex wife, but much like blaming President Obama, it might not be fair? I fail to see the LOL.
On a personal note I lost a brother to alcohol, a step child to cancer, and a wife to one of the morally corrupt technological advances mentioned above. So for me I am damn glad this nightmare of a decade has come to a conclusion. I hope like hell it is the kind of decade that only comes around “once in a blue moon”! Here is to a better year in 2010, and a new and better decade for all.
©JKDark2009.
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