I'm going with "can't wait to look back fondly on how good we had it in 2020"
New year. New me. New strain of the rona. :covid-cool:
tbf, if there's a covid every year we may hit the paris climate goal so that's something.
it's probably important to have signifiers to mark changing life events. graduations, birthday parties, new years' etc. sure, you're the same person living the same life before and after, but it's good to compartmentalize some of that, or else you'll just be one of those people who is mad that a restaurant messed up your order four years ago
It's just people hoping next year is better. I wouldn't overthink it.
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.
Blaming the year instead of other, material, reasons may be more attractive for some because the year ends and then things ostensibly go back to normal. It's an indication of people feeling they have no control whatsoever over politics ore the material world at large, and so view it as an unopposable force of nature (While the virus itself is a fore of nature, the response to the virus is not).
Pure cope. Can't say i blame em, i wish I could believe in positive change in the near future
It's not gonna be good or anything but I think it'll be better come optimistically summer, probably early fall. Like yeah things will still suck ass but you'll be able to go to the beach, restaurants, bars, etc.
yeah but this summer's not gonna be much worse than last. climate change is a gradual thing.
This is a repackaged version of the whole "why do people say happy new year and celebrating new year's eve, there is nothing special about any specific day". Like, come on. It's just something people say. It's not important.
Also it is kind of a remnant of older times when the year changing actually did matter a lot for various reasons, especially for farmers, it wasn't like now where for most people every day of every year isn't special for any reason.
Same people said the same shit in 2016 and look how much better things got in 2017-2019 🙄
