2026
2026
I may as well make my predictions for the coming year, for what they are worth (sixpence perhaps). I think collective insanity will continue to increase, particularly on the right but also on the left. The descent into savagery will continue (just look at Abby Phillip’s nightly show). I think Me Too will suffer a big backlash, some justified, some not. There will be no lasting resolution in Ukraine and Israel. Trump will keep naming things after himself. He will become more incoherent. Philosophy will continue its decline. Music and movies will be even more soulless. Tennis will be a bright spot, but a tenuous one. Comedy will have a bad year. Illiteracy will increase, especially among people at universities. SNL may run its course. I don’t see anything good happening.
maybe animals will do well, other than dogs and cats whose fate is tied to that of humans
It does feel like the trend is in the bad direction across the board. The bad momentum will outlast Trump who makes all good things bad and all bad things worse, though if his brain were to go into cardiac arrest, life, the universe and everything might stabilize
We are in a particularly bad moment right now because of that murder in Minneapolis and the apologists for it on the right.