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2023: Troubles Ahead, Troubles Behind
All around the world, same song.
As 2022 draws to a close, the media landscape is filled as always with lists. Conservative and progressive negative nabobs are weighing in with equal fervor.
“2022: A year to forget,” declared Charles Hurt for the Washington Times on December 29, 2022.
“Goodbye 2022 — and good riddance: Markets close out their worst year since 2008,” agreed Nicole Goodkind, Julia Horowitz, and David Goldman for CNN on December 30, from the opposite side of the political spectrum.
2022 didn’t solve the world’s problems. If anything, it was a year for compounding them.
“These lies about climate change just wouldn’t die in 2022,” groused Elizabeth Weise for USA Today on Thursday.
2022 was the year tech stocks crumbled, “The End of the Silicon Valley Myth,” as Brian Merchant put it for The Atlantic this week.
Goodbye, Camelot: “Amazon lost half its value this year as tech stocks got crushed and recession fears grew,” reported CNBC on December 29, 2022.
“Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022,” wrote Sara Morrison for Vox, listing “moonshots, Portals, and ad-free Netflix,” among other foibles.
2022 was, “The Year ESG Fell to Earth,” and possibly the year Mark Zuckerberg’s…