Legacy of the 2010s

[Marypoza]

(05-19-2019, 06:54 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(03-27-2019, 06:38 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: In just a little over nine months from now we will close the books on another decade. What will the legacy of the 2010s be? Its highs, its lows, its would've, could've and should'ves? This could be the decade that disproves at least some of the authors' theory. They identified a roughly 80-year saecular cycle, which would have made this decade coincide with the 1930s. Yet the 2010s were a far cry from the near universal misery of the earlier time. At its beginning we may have still felt the effects of the downturn of the closing years of the 00 decade, but nothing even closely resembling a second great depression occurred. Being a Chicago area person, one of the highlights has to be that of the Cubs winning the world series for the first time in over a century. Your thoughts here.

For me the 2010s were a VERY important time for my local area and the news went global and shocked the world as it seems. That was the time our entire city came crashing down and many tourists and locals had died in the many many large earthquakes. The legacy of the 2010s for my area is that we will always remember that time as it is surrounded by us to this day physically. We still have fallen buildings waiting to be rebuilt, we are still rebuilding an entire city from the ashes. It took out our city's icon, the Christchurch cathedral. Us millennials were mobilized to create the SVA and help in mass our community. It was a devastating, yet empowering time of community building and extreme loss.










memorial wall for those who died.


some members of the group I was in...the SVA made and run by fellow kiwi millennials. We will never forget the 2010s.






clearing out silt brought up from the earthquakes was part of the job. The 2010s rocked our part of the world, shaped us as a community, tore down an old city, took from us loved ones, and brought life a new rebuild. A new city.

-- & y'all banned assault weapons. I wish we could do that here