Something New
I was born in 1999. I love getting to call myself a 90’s kid, even if it’s on a technicality. My older siblings (’93 and ’95) tend to be less stoked about it. A great part about 99 is that I always get to be as old as the new year, I get to be 25 going into 2025. 25 feels like an important one. It’s always been a fun little observation, then we get to this year. “This year has been one of the hardest years of my life” has been what I’ve said year over year for the past 5, and I gotta say I think it might be true again this year (fingers crossed for 2025). In the past five years we’ve witnessed continued social isolation/distrust, political unrest, media structure collapse, monopolization of resources, stifling of labor action, and ongoing genocidal military action being perpetrated across the world. Take your pick of any combination of these as a reason for any of us to feel quite justified in a shitty state of the world, and I’m certainly not smart enough to get to the bottom of any...