Hello Genius! It's Your Weekly Wag!
Buckle up, it’s 2024!
Dear Wags,
What choppy waters we’re sailing into! We’ve decided we’re going to make a fare-thee-well list of all the things we cherished about civilization, in case the whole kaboodle tumbles into a chasm by this time next year. That promises to be a more engaging activity than wringing our hands.
Meantime, we could provide you with another batch of 2024 predictions. Ours might go something like this:
Gaaaaah!
Let’s try another tack:
Politics will be depressing
International affairs will be terrifying
Media, social and otherwise, will be mortifying
Universities, elite and otherwise, will be obnoxious
Our unhealthy obsession with fame, beauty, and money will be perennial
Knowing all this in advance should free you up to enjoy life. That’s not the same thing as being oblivious to contemporary horrors. But if you can’t see the good in existence, you are unlikely to crawl out from under the comforter to do anything about the bad.
Our real fear for the future isn’t about scary problems looming on all sides. That’s always the case. It’s that ordinary people, who can be marvelously capable, will become too cranky and inert to do anything about them. Will someone as sparky as you let that happen? Never. Onward together, comrades.
Yours Ever,
