This is so absurd. 2025. It’s so ridiculously far in the future. Maybe you have the same feeling? That the real year is about twenty-five years in the past, and that this reality is some sort of broken, out of control spiral of misery?

Maybe the Y2K glitch wasn’t a data storage bug. Maybe it was our inflection point of doom. DOOM. DOOooOoom!! If you can’t tell, I’ve been doing a descending slow burn into apathy ever since an Inconvenient Truth came out. Ever since Gore lost that election.

I still can’t embrace full nihilism yet though. There’s a stubborn piece of optimism that won’t die, despite the unrelenting progression of global temperatures and ecosystem decline.

It Jan 1st and it’s raining outside.

So, here I am, sitting in the sauna, post New Year’s resolution workout, once again mourning the seemingly inevitable demise of our species…. and I’m so tired of it.

Last night we watched two episodes of Star Trek The Next Generation followed by the animated movie Flow. We should have reversed the order. The futuristic show with earnest idealism should come after the beautiful crushing Dystopian story, not vice versa. (I can’t recommend Flow enough. Incredible animated film)

Happy New Year.