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Other posters are correct when they point out that “2020 worst year” is just parroting what has been said every year since 2016.
Categorising this as an abnormally unusual year is a coping mechanism at its core. People have to believe things will mystically and magically begin to get better with the turn of year because even with their very limited understanding of the present crisis they see no path or course of action past it. A similar anxiety in some people produces great man/strong man worship that has led to the cult of Trump, and on the left (to a much lesser degree) to the cult of Bernie, both ultimately into a semi-primal need for an elder male leader figure to guide us towards safety. Biden does not have a strong enough personality to produce a similar great man cult (as we saw in Obama) so in its absence some democrats lean toward the view of Biden’s potential election as a mystical event which will radically change things (similar to the view of new year as somehow magical)
What makes this worse is that westerners have been socially conditioned by consumer propaganda (aka “Marketing”) toward short term memories, emotional spontaneousness, extended adolescence and general anxiety. This is because these personality traits (or disorders) produce better consumers. A person who lacks ability to record or categorise information and time correctly, who makes spontaneous financial decisions, who emotionally and mentally childlike/maldeveloped and who seeks constant affirmation (especially when the only means of attaining said affirmation are via consumption) will purchase more, more often, and will is generally easier to emotionally manipulate and control, whether simply towards consumption or toward political goals, etc. Because of this not only are westerners unable to cope with the prospect of worsening conditions/collapse, their ability to memorise and recall information - in this case that the degeneration we are experiencing now is not new, and that it is not largely a result of Trump or pedophile elites or the current covid epidemic but an all-round tendency toward societal degeneration, is severely hindered.
It’s absolutely the case that even if this pandemic never occurred, people would still be calling 2020 a terrible year, and it’s absolutely the case that even if the Pandemic never occurred and Biden won in a giant blue wave with minimal unrest, Americans in particular would repeat the same thing next year and the year after that and so on.
This short termism and emotional instability is the same thing which had led in my country (Australia) people to hostility toward the current lockdowns. In the absence of a popular strong man figure and strong opposition to lay blame on one way or another, They’ve become genuinely convinced the crux if their problems can be reduced to the pandemic rather the decaying society, a degenerating world order and a total lack of any meaning or purpose in their lives other than a very lonely, very shallow drive to consumption. Their lives are essentially meaningless and without any real drive.
Either they’ll come to understand this, or more likely demagogues and opportunists will take advantage of their despair and lay the blame on a scapegoat, eg, immigrants, ethnic minorities, the jooZ, “cultural Marxism” or whatever the boogieman of the day is - in which case we’ll likely go down the road of fascism until they inevitability fail to bring about their magical world and they face collapse, however millions of dead bodies it takes to reach that point.
Either way, the coming decades will not be fun. In a few years 2020 may well be the last normal (or relatively normal) of our lives by comparison.
Categorising this as an abnormally unusual year is a coping mechanism at its core. People have to believe things will mystically and magically begin to get better with the turn of year because even with their very limited understanding of the present crisis they see no path or course of action past it. A similar anxiety in some people produces great man/strong man worship that has led to the cult of Trump, and on the left (to a much lesser degree) to the cult of Bernie, both ultimately into a semi-primal need for an elder male leader figure to guide us towards safety. Biden does not have a strong enough personality to produce a similar great man cult (as we saw in Obama) so in its absence some democrats lean toward the view of Biden’s potential election as a mystical event which will radically change things (similar to the view of new year as somehow magical)
What makes this worse is that westerners have been socially conditioned by consumer propaganda (aka “Marketing”) toward short term memories, emotional spontaneousness, extended adolescence and general anxiety. This is because these personality traits (or disorders) produce better consumers. A person who lacks ability to record or categorise information and time correctly, who makes spontaneous financial decisions, who emotionally and mentally childlike/maldeveloped and who seeks constant affirmation (especially when the only means of attaining said affirmation are via consumption) will purchase more, more often, and will is generally easier to emotionally manipulate and control, whether simply towards consumption or toward political goals, etc. Because of this not only are westerners unable to cope with the prospect of worsening conditions/collapse, their ability to memorise and recall information - in this case that the degeneration we are experiencing now is not new, and that it is not largely a result of Trump or pedophile elites or the current covid epidemic but an all-round tendency toward societal degeneration, is severely hindered.
It’s absolutely the case that even if this pandemic never occurred, people would still be calling 2020 a terrible year, and it’s absolutely the case that even if the Pandemic never occurred and Biden won in a giant blue wave with minimal unrest, Americans in particular would repeat the same thing next year and the year after that and so on.
This short termism and emotional instability is the same thing which had led in my country (Australia) people to hostility toward the current lockdowns. In the absence of a popular strong man figure and strong opposition to lay blame on one way or another, They’ve become genuinely convinced the crux if their problems can be reduced to the pandemic rather the decaying society, a degenerating world order and a total lack of any meaning or purpose in their lives other than a very lonely, very shallow drive to consumption. Their lives are essentially meaningless and without any real drive.
Either they’ll come to understand this, or more likely demagogues and opportunists will take advantage of their despair and lay the blame on a scapegoat, eg, immigrants, ethnic minorities, the jooZ, “cultural Marxism” or whatever the boogieman of the day is - in which case we’ll likely go down the road of fascism until they inevitability fail to bring about their magical world and they face collapse, however millions of dead bodies it takes to reach that point.
Either way, the coming decades will not be fun. In a few years 2020 may well be the last normal (or relatively normal) of our lives by comparison.
