We’ve accomplished quite a bit as a global society in our time. We have medicine, which is absolutely fucking amazing when you really think about how you no longer die when you catch a cold. We can fly across oceans to other continents, which I am still in disbelief about every time I am taking off in a plane (a seldom occurrence as it is). We have industry, which thanks to capitalists, continues to offer us technological solutions to problems that were commonplace a mere decade ago.

Culturally, we have great masterworks of music, cinema, art, and plenty of other studies. I’ve been wondering lately about what the 2010s will being to the table. In the 1990s, cellphones and Pokémon changed the world (OK, cellphones did). In the 2000s, we had The Strokes, (and, uh, access to the culmination of human knowledge accessible to us for free at any time we wanted in the form of the Internet, I guess.) What have the 2010s offered us so far?

For one, we have Chris Brown.  We can also check Facebook on our phones, and that’s truly worth everything we’ve ever worked towards, isn’t it?

…ha ha ha.

What I’d really like to say is that, essentially, this decade has so far, in its first two years, offered us very little actual cultural contribution. The most promising event was the Occupy movement, but that was quickly crushed/dismissed as being disorganized and full of hipsters and druggies. What will our creativity, drive, and technological development push us towards accomplishing during the next 8 years? For the first time in human history, with the use of the Internet and cellphones, time and distance mean very little in interpersonal communications. Can we make the most of this realization and communicate with each other in hopes of making a better world for us all?

If not, at least we can check out what high school locker partners and old romantic interests are doing on our phones. And isn’t that a good life?

Well, good enough.