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The best years are never those that are called historical.
It is better to live in times that babble, in which everyone can pursue their own small stuff.
2020, that much is certain, was a historic year, unfortunately.
It was the year in which a president was voted out of office in the USA who led Western democracy to the brink.
It was the year of the pandemic.
And it was the year in which you had to be brave for a very long time to still believe in people, in humanity.
The old, foul warnings that man would destroy everything that forms the basis of his life and culture seemed finally to come true.
Everywhere people operated overexploitation.
Seen from today, the world as it appeared before the pandemic appears comparatively cheerful and healthy - but in fact it was already gloomy then.
The climate catastrophe was approaching and the world community failed to pull itself together.
Nationalism was on the rise, and with it populism and autocracy.
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