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A Hopeful, Fun Coronavirus Post (With Lots of Fun Links!)
(With a Caveat: These Are Gonna Be Trying Times, Let’s Work Together and Imagine The Future We’ve All Wanted for a Long-Ass Time!)
I’m sitting here in my non-heated, non-air-conditioned room in central Japan, probably in conditions that many would say are “too cold” or “uncomfortable” and I’m watching a YouTube video I found via this crazy interconnected world we have created, a video by two Millennials in the U.S. who are addressing, in a very realistic-yet-inspiring way, the craziness of the timeline we find ourselves in halfway into only the third month of this wacky 2020 and I hear:
“People who tell you that Utopia is just a dream are really only telling you how cynical they are.”
That was from the male host, this guy sitting on the left whose name I don’t know, but who I can look at and see myself if I can peer upstream a decade or so…
And this guy and his partner have been dishing out the goods throughout this video, so much so that I’ve not yet made it to the end and, to be totally honest, once I got about 15 minutes in, I was just about to jump out of my chair in celebration because, well, I’ve been waiting, oh how I’ve been waiting, for some sort of catalyst event to make the…