Why
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Because we didn't have anything to do but pay attention to the world around us. All of the stuff that happened this year, COVID aside (speaking of the US here), would have happened either way and we would have (like the attention deficit bunch we are) would have moved to the next thing without noticing the former for very long. This year, we were forced to pump the brakes and just sit. the. eff. still. That's hard, and we then reached for everything, anything really, to focus on. That led to seeing SO many things that we would ordinarily brush off and skirt around. Now, we see them. We've seen too much. And upon seeing it, we also can't do anything about a lot of it because it's not our circus, they aren't our monkeys, or we can't go anywhere to do something about anything.
2020 was a year of drama. Election drama, political faction riot drama, COVID drama. Never before has the west had to mass-quarantine, halting the normal flow of business and family life because of the pandemic. For the first time in many of our spoiled first world lives have we had to deal with deprivation of any kind, some of them due to our own stupidity (toilet paper hoarding, ahem). Was 2020 "the worst"? It was interesting, but its just the set up for 2021. None of the problems in 2020 have been resolved, nor are they likely to go away any time soon. Those people who are breathing a sigh of relief that Trump is not the declared winner of the elections have no idea what havoc a loose cannon Trump is now free to be outside of office. You think he's crazy now.
