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By Kyle, January 1, 2010 10:07 am

Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone

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Exactly one decade ago, I woke up and found that the world had not ended as predicted. At midnight on January 1, 2000 (not January 1, 1900), communications were not wiped out, banks did not fail, and planes did not fall out of the sky. While thankfully not occurring instantaneously at the outset of the new millennium, rather these events merely postponed their own eventual occurrence throughout the remainder of the decade that followed, a decade that some have stuffily coined “The Aughties”, or better yet, “The Naughties”.

It does seem that in this past decade, we reached some of the lowest lows in recent historical memory; either that or we’ve simply become faster at reporting, publishing, digg-ing, and re-tweeting the latest negative (and some positive I suppose) events to occur, regardless of their lasting impact or significance.

If the 00s were merely an exposed manifestation of what was already albeit surreptitiously occurring in the 90s, then hopefully the 10s (“The tens?”, “The teens?”, “The teeens?”), will be a chance for us to learn from our mistakes and move forward.

On to 2020!

Have a Happy New Year everybody!