I don’t know if I should feel embarrassed or allow the imagination to constantly create new excuses as to what’s happened.
Attended the premiere of the new Sean Penn and Naomi Watts film Fair Game last night; a period piece 2002 and 03. I spent three quarters of the flick trying to convince myself that I was alive during those years. If that’s true, where’s the swag and everything else we’ve tagged to our luggage during other decades?
How did we get to 2010 so quickly?
My good friend Steve has spent countless hours trying to explain that the human memory system is no different than a Del or IPad…the more you shove in, the less you digest.
I write everyday. Two books currently sit on Amazon based on a single man’s thoughts during a decade that was deposited but my mind body and soul don’t seem to be spinning out a return. So today, I share with you, from www.totallytopten.com it’s the Top 10 News Events of the Decade We’ll Never Forget yet for some reason it went by way too fast to wanna display it on the fireplace mantle.
The September 11th attack on the World Trade Center
The Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
The war and occupation of Iraq
Y2K
Hurricane Katrina
Swine Flu epidemic and SARs
Barrack Obama elected President of the United States
Michael Jackson passes away
Forty shootings at schools including Virginia Tech
The U.S. Healthcare debate
I do remember being there…its impact has reshaped the generation once inspired by four mop top musicians from Liverpool while gagging the American dream in its aftermath. The term I remember where I was…is more alive today than any other time in history.
My Mom’s general reaction is and always has been, “The only thing we can do is pray.”
In the film Sean Penn’s character Joe Wilson challenges a group of young adults to name an event the government has performed and they can’t. When he asks them to name his wife they all say Valerie Plame…the CIA agent that was illegally ripped from secrecy because of particular members of a leadership we vowed to trust.
The top news story has become our latest fad.
When was the last time you thought about Haiti? Remember the earthquake this past year and the outpouring of hard to locate dollars and human compassion that ran to their side? Until NBC, ABC and CNN broke the story about cholera did the horrid conditions that remain ever cross the paths we make?
Did you know that worldly known musician Wyclef Jean, born and raised in Haiti, who loves his homeland like Nelson Mandela in South Africa was told he can’t be the leader of a nation that’s fallen below its knees. The constitution states you have to live in the country for five consecutive years. Music took his dreams to other corners of the world costing him and the people an opportunity to be heard through influence and inspiration.
What will we feel in 2020?
The 60’s were vibrant with voices vowing to be heard. In the 70’s fashion and music consumed our American Culturalisms. Ronald Reagan and Duran Duran dominated the 80’s making way for Hip Hop and Gangsta a decade later. Once locked into the new millennium The Wall Street Journal couldn’t have been more clearer when admitting today’s generation no longer lets music be its voice—teens have adopted the very tunes their parents held dearly. For the first time music no longer has a generation gap.
So we've given permission to the media to create new fads: News…and lots of it.
If the human memory is truly like a Del and IPad…in which folder have you stored the stuff that really counts? How often do you put the curser on Start then right click for search? That’s what I did today because I have no clue as to what happened during the first decade. I needed a swift kick in the ***
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