In this weekend’s USA WEEKEND newspaper filler, the cover story: … “The Five Most Important Buildings of the Twenty-first Century!”
Never mind that two of them were built in the Twentieth.
Anyone who proclaims anything, even something so apparently seminal as 9/11, as the most anything of the Twenty-first Century before at least AD 2050 deserves a serious rapping on the knuckles. Sheesh.
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No NO NO! Don’t you know that everything good happens RIGHT NOW?
Of course. Let’s rush on out and proclaim anything and everything we’ve done in the last three days as the ultimate and totally unsurpassable. Is that even a damn word?
Has anyone done a survey of how many “Trials of the Century!” there were last century? You think folks would learn.
Perhaps the “current” century should always be the one we are centered in… For instance, the current century began Sept. 2, 1952 and ends Sept 1, 2052. It works for me. The same with the decade, I’d like to consider the last decade as having begun Sept 2, 1992–not Jan. 1, 1990.
“Ah, yes — the 2-Sep-92s were a fine decade …”
Or perhaps we should be forward-looking, and consider the current decade to begin today and go forward ten years.
Since the division of time into decades is arbitrary as it is …
Any idea on how many Storms of the Century there were…..just in the 80’s and 90’s?? I’d imagine anything that happens right now can be considered “….of the century”.