The Long Summer of 2020

Get ready to start hearing that term alot, because your kids are gonna be reading about it in history books.

The dominos are starting to fall. America is getting a reality check from it's Coronavirus performance. We're in the deepest recession in recorded history. People are paralyzed at home while the one time stimulus check has come and gone. Unemployment is reaching record highs, with people unable to pay food or rent. And now a quick succession of events of racial violence that cannot be ignored by the now disrupted day to day of Americans is rippling across the US.

Who knows what the next domino to fall will be, or when they will stop falling.

2020, rather prophetically, got off to a bad start, with forest fires sweeping across Australia. Oh and in the midst of all this catastrophe Brexit went through, although it's hard to believe that that was ever the center of attention.

Change is in the air, and no matter how hard the institutions fight to prevent it, the contracts holding together American society by a bare thread have been profoundly broken. These events aren't "in the moment, sweep under the rug" kinds of things. They're the culmination of events over the past couple of decades that have been swept under the rug or ignored in the corner of the room, problems that have grown so large and obstructing, that have been normalized in American lives, up until now.

And whatever happens in America affects the way the world is ordered. Perhaps for better or for worse.

All I'm saying is strap in y'all. The Summer isn't over yet. We're only in May right now. Whatever happens this summer, this year, this decade, will define the future of our lives.

I hope we get it right.