Specially Canned Reflections on the Aughts

I'd been taking repeated inventories of all the ideas I had in my head having to do with what I was going to write in reflecting back on the past ten years, if I felt the urge to do so. Clearly the urge has been felt, but I decided against using any of those ideas. In addition to not wanting to add needless girth to the body of reptrospectives already in place, however minute it may be in comparison to other contributions, I simply don't care, nor has anyone offered me a reason for feeling otherwise. This is not to say that I have a predetermined desire to spin things bleakly, but in my reflections of all the memorable events and cultural fads of the era, I came to the general conclusion that not enough people were sufficiently disappointed in themselves and in what they did during the '00s to really warrant the decade rememberance with any real fondness. Too many opportunities went unseized; too many potentially good things were so reduced in goodness as to make urine a far more palatable substance; too many tantrums passed for eloquence; too many honors and accolades were thrown in no particular direction; too many failures were simply not allowed to shine on their own merits as failures.

Though I make no claim to authority or influence over the matter (it's boredom that compels me so more than anything else), I make the suggestion that we take to excessive drinking, perhaps even some mutually angry sex, in order to spend what remains of this decade doing things more economically sound than nostalgia and that leave us so stripped of any will to move or convey vibrancy as to leave us indifferent as to whether or not we are prepared to dread the future.

That, of course, is entirely up to you, and as I do not care too much about the '00s so too do I not care how you decided to cope. I personally am quite curious about the future, if not particularly giddy in anticipation over it. Hell, there is still the possibility that something will be cured rather than staved off. Maybe buying whores will be legal, too. Perhaps that is a better activity, let's all be this guy ...