Food For Thought/Thought For Food No. 34: 5 Years Later

2020. Hard to believe it’s been 5 years since the start of this rather horrible decade. Hard to believe it’s been 5 years since a world-wide plague came & swept over the entire planet, killing so many & hurting just as much. Here in the United States, I don’t think I even need to say what it was like. We had the most people die from The Plague, all thanks to our “Dear Leader” at the time, who unfortunately will be sworn in again on the 20th. We had racial tensions the likes of which we haven’t seen in forever, food & supply shortages, and incompetency from (Most, if I’m being honest) our political leaders (ESPECIALLY the GOP) the likes of which will only get worse during these next 4 years.

I think we can all remember moments from 2020. Remember moments pretty easily from that year to be honest. However, trying to recall that whole year from beginning to end is practically impossible. The isolation, not to mention the disease-ridden blur that was COVID, makes 2020 such a hazy year for pretty much all of us. Not only that, but with all of the people that died, along with many business both small & large closing their doors for good, makes that entire time so much more obscured than it needed to be.

For a brief period, after that god-awful time I thought there was hope. I thought that things would get better, and in various times since that year it almost seemed like it. However, with what’s been happening over in the Middle East towards the end of 2023, not to mention all of the increasing rise of “Conservatism” in so many parts of the world, that hope almost feels like an illusion at this point. To be perfectly honest, hope does truly feel kind of pointless nowadays, and with the kind of year I had in 2024, it’s just made that feeling so much worse for me. However, I’m still alive. Maybe not very happy or joyful, but I still have a heartbeat, and maybe I’ll get through whatever kind of pit I’m in.

So for 2025, I wanted to do something different when it came to my reviews. For this year, I want to review the various pieces of media that helped me through 2020. My top albums of that year, some of the video games & MTG sets, and even some of the anime from that time. I’ve already looked at a few pieces from then, so in response to that I’ll be doing revised versions of those reviews. On top of that, I’ll be putting up some less.....hostile Food For Thought/Thought For Food articles, talking about what I was thinking during that time, along with a few other things. I'll have it on a tight schedule as well: the 1st of a month, the 15th, and on the 30th unless otherwise (Looking at you, February).

So, I’ll be starting this hopefully year-long retrospective series of reviews in the middle of this month, when I’ll be looking at the two albums at my no. 5 spot from that year, and the 1st album will be a bit......chilly. See you then!




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