It would be insanity to think that because tonight turns this night into a new calendar year starting tomorrow morning things will be different.
I’m good at insanity. I’ve practiced it a lot in my life and still do sometimes. But I do know that tomorrow morning if we all do what we’ve all always done, nothing will change.
The notion of New Year’s is one of the hope of change. Hence we make resolutions, which I gave up on a long time ago. If I actually followed my resolutions I’d be skinny now instead of still needing to diet.
That said, I continually pray to God. I’m not an atheist, so to any atheists out there, just consider that statement as an affirmation of hopefulness. For me it is faith and more.
Overall, I have little hope for us. Man is by nature selfish and greedy. Look at our ruling class, the American Politburo. I don’t expect them to change. First reasonable sign of change coming from them will be a simple one-size-fits-all imposition of strict term limits.
Not gonna happen because man is by nature selfish and greedy, and they (as a group) exemplify in real time the worst of that.
I don’t think 2021 will be much better than 2020. In fact I think it will be considerably worse. I think Covid will only be partly, and a small part at that, the reason as to why.
The average shelf life of a democracy is about a quarter-century. The way we educate our kids these days, that’s about 250 years. Seems to me we’re doing a great job of killing ours.
One thing 2020 has done for me is given me back gratitude. I am grateful. I’m thankful for so much it’s too much to elaborate here and now. Another time.
So on New Year’s Eve if you think there’s a magic bullet out there that’s gonna make things better starting tomorrow morning, forget about it.
If you think our leaders and the world leaders are going to do better, nice thought, but forget about it.
Regardless, think good thoughts, look to the sun and keep love and gratitude in your heart.
