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Goodbye, and Goodriddence to 2009 and this awful decade

Posted: December 11, 2009 at 8:44 pm | Tags: Auto, Car, cars, Clinton, country, Election, elections, Government, History, movies, Music, news, Random, space, trash

We started off the new millennium with lots of hopes. The whole “Year 2000″ thing sounded so exciting and futuristic, and we were all expecting great things to come. Instead, this decade has been an awful start that hopefully won’t set the stage for the next 90. While some areas had wild amounts of success and made our lives better (like all these fancy new cell phones), just about every part of our lives has suffered some kind of step backwards in the 2000s.

Here’s why I can’t wait for the month to end and will be welcoming 2010 with open arms.

The Music of the 00’s

It all started off with this and has just gone downhill.

In 2000 the #1 album was “The Beatles: 1″, and by 2005 it was a 50 Cent album. That’s how fast things went downhill. The rest is history. Year after year we are treated to another piece of repetitive trash, a new Britney comeback album, or something else that just makes you dumber every time you hear it. It’s gotten so bad that we now consider a song who’se only lyrics are “Tonight’s gunna be a good night” to be perfectly acceptable. Excuse me while I go barf.

It’s ridiculous how much 90’s music I listen to now just because today’s “artists” have driven me in another direction so rapidly.

The music industry as a whole became something we all hated. Nothing like hearing record labels cry poor from piracy only to find out now that they use unauthorized recordings in compilations all the time.

Cars and The Auto Industry

Car companies gave us piece of shit after piece of shit after piece of shit. Ugly cars like the Ponitac Aztek, Cadillacs that look like they were rendered with an N64 instead of AutoCad, and where do we end up? The strongest domestic car company today produces a car that looks like a mini cooper on steroids. Only more box-like.

It’s no wonder that the auto industry tanked and took Michigan down with it. Especially Detroit, with everyone now scrambling to find a solution for what to do with a one-horse city when the horse dies out.

The Movies

We watched the Matrix get ruined. We watched 45% of all film produced go to movies about hobbits. We saw way too much crap, and more remakes that just had us asking “Why…?”

The saddest part is that the movie-making technology has gotten better, and the movie watching technology has gotten substantially better. And what do we do with all of this new found technology hiding in 1080p and Blu-Ray?

Certainly no 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The Abundant Rape of the Constitution by multiple people

This was a rape, bukkake, and hog tie all in one with our country as the bitch. Our government decided Habeus Corpus was suspended, it was cool to wire-tap citizens, blatantly ignore the 4th amendment, pass a bunch of unconstitutional provisions, and nationalize numerous industries. All while running the national debt up through the roof. The saddest part is that all the presidents are guilty, each for their own reasons. But there’s no denying it, it’s at the point where one has to wonder if the country’s founding principles can ever be restored.

People attempted to scare us about everything at every turn

First it was Clinton’s dealings with the Chinese. Then it was “Bush Stole the ELECTION! The system is flawed”. Then it was a whole series of nonsense meant to scare the hell out of everyone. Terrorism. Anthrax. Global Warming. Crashing Economy (actually frightening) Avian Flu. Swine Flu. And all that other jazz.

Nothing sums it up as well as the argument that the government made saying that swine flu is more rampant than we thought…because so many people had it and didn’t realize it. What an absurd amount of stupid.

We were taught to live in a constant state of fear from assorted randomness that could kill us at any time or place. No, I’m not amused. And much of this fear led to…

War. Lots of it.

Since 2001 we have been engulfed in a new gulf war that has ridiculously expensive. Afghanistan, Iraq, and who knows what is best. It started with terrorism and has come full circle to a president who is awarded a Nobel peace prize only days after he escalates these wars. If you’re saying “what the hell?” you’re not alone.

We constantly lost the battle against nature

Between the great Tsunami, hurricanes all the way up to Katrina, earthquakes, and more. All that’s missing is for a volcano to blow up sometime soon and we can call it all complete.

The stock market went boom. Hard.

Unemployment runs rampant and the best we can come up with is bail out the banks with money we don’t have, buy up the car companies and put the whole damn country under construction at once. From Bernie Madoff to Ben Bernake to Kenneth Lay, corporate greed and a broken federal reserve system destroyed the notion of “American Prosperity”. Two market crashes?!? It’s a miracle we’re doing as well as we are.

I’ll be looking forward to the end of 2009. Not to turn another year older, but to put behind the decade of broken dreams and hope to start new. Cheers to 2010 and what is to come!

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