The Decade of Decency

Zook
15 min readJan 6, 2020

What are you doing?

Took out an old video album.

Can I see?

Sure.

That is ancient.

Hey. When I was your age, albums only had still photos.

How old are you again?

79.

Whoa. Why are you flipping through now? L-lexa® made lunch.

Not the hugest fan of that thing.

You’re old.

You’re cute. Come back after lunch and we’ll look through it.

I’ll eat later.

Curious today?

I don’t get why you spent all morning flipping.

This year is the 50th anniversary.

Of?

Of 2020.

When was that in ours?

50 years ago…

When did they switch to astro time?

A while later, when the classical calendar fell out of fashion.

So what happened in 2020?

It was the beginning of a new era. People were waking up.

About what?

About who we are. We’d forgotten that we are animals. That humans share a history, an evolutionary past, with many others.

How could you forget, with all that back hair?

Watch it!

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