10 Important Lessons We Learned From the 2010s
Ah, yes, the time has come! A time that only occurs a few times in our adult lives. A time that is completely arbitrary and whose importance is invented for the sake of writing clickbaity headlines like this one.
That’s right, it’s the end of the decade, motherfuckers.
It’s one of those special times when writers and journalists who are whores to the constant internet content cycle get together and decide what the “bests” and “worsts” of the past ten years are. Then they can pretend to sound profound and insightful for a few minutes. I may or may not be one of those whores. You decide.
Because I put together the 10 most important lessons we’ve learned this decade. Why 10 lessons? Because it’s a decade, dumbass!
Let’s dive in.
1. Beyond a Certain Point, More Connection Doesn’t Bring People Together, It Pushes Them Apart
At the beginning of the decade, we were still awash in the idealistic visions of Zuckerbergism—that making the world more connected was an inherently Good Thing. That through technology, we could bring people together, to help them become more tolerant of their differences, that we’d all unite as a species under one great …
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