F*CK 2020

A Rational Guide To One Hell Of A Year

If you or a loved one is currently suffering from eco-anxiety, hopelessness, opiate addiction, social isolation, extremist political sentiment, or an absolute hatred for what humans have revealed themselves to be in times of crisis, you may be living in 2020.

Yes, it does suck that we are living through what will likely be the least popular destination for any time traveler. No, the fact that this one year sucks doesn’t mean that it’s one randomly bad year that will peacefully depart from us as soon as 2021 rolls around. Instead, 2020 can be seen as an accumulation of proxy issues, not-my-problems, and everything else we were putting off from taking too seriously.

After all, why live your life assuming a pandemic will happen? Who has the time to participate in civic society when you have to pay a mortgage and feed your kids? There’s a reason why the ancients were a little more passionate in the political arena.

And who really wants to accept the consequences of climate change, the fact that every little action you partake in, from misplacing your recyclables with your organics to forgetting to turn off your light when…