RIP MF DOOM

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That's a wrap. 2020 stabbed us in the throat, picked us back up, and stabbed us through the chest. 2020 RKO'd our asses out of nowhere. And then to top it all off, we as a Nation embarrassed ourselves while the entire world watched. The Cynic inside says, "When the going gets bad, we'll all eat each other." 


Driving past tent cities in downtown Los Angeles brings out that Cynic in me. All hail America, the mightiest Empire in the World, where brother kills brother, Cain Eats Abel. We give homeless people living in piss and squalor McDoubles instead of money to make ourselves feel better.  If Covid did anything, it forced us to look at the ugliest parts of ourselves: the selfish, sociopathic blueprint that this country was designed to be. We proved that we don't care. Cities like Los Angeles bring people closer together in population density, but strip people of all empathy toward our neighbors. 


Our saving grace is our ability to adapt. I wish I could say that 2021 is going to be so much better, but if anything, 2021 will be our 12 step program. We're going to try to return to normal society, but if we don't start slow, and admit what's wrong with us before we move forward, we're going to keep chasing our own tails.  Which, unfortunately, America doesn’t like to admit it’s wrong. Pride comes before the fall; and shit, we've fallen pretty far. The pandemic did everything EXCEPT bring us together. We're more divided than we have ever been. I saw somebody post on a Reddit page, something to the extent of "I hate Liberals more than I hate the Taliban!!!" Which, upon careful analysis, I deciphered that probably means we really, REALLY fucking hate each other. To be fair, people my age on Twitter call for guillotining the Rich, like we live in some New Aged Jacobin France, so the hatred is rampant within all of us. 


I wish I could say things are going to get better. But to be honest, I think 2021 will continue to bring darkness, as both sides ostracize the other. Nobody wants to reach out. A relationship is dead once one or both parties refuse to speak to one another. I can't wrap my head around what people actually want to accomplish by just screaming I HATE YOU to the other side. Most people just want to be heard. Especially the 99% of people who aren't heard. So, I think our New Years Resolution should be to listen to one another, and realize we all live on the same soil. We must coexist. Or, we'll die. 


Americans have killed each other before.


REST IN PEACE MF DOOM. 2020 stole from us an Artist, and the best Lyricist to ever put pen to paper. 


Happy New Year.


Love,

-JDW

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