i always thought nothing ever happens was a joke. is it not? i mean there’s something to be said about the speed at which things are subsumed and normalized by popular culture and the media. obviously things happen. we just went through a huge pandemic. we are arguably in the throes of world war 3 and have been for some time. the world is obviously different than it was 5, 10, 20, 30 years ago. but when things do happen the media is quick to normalize and revert to the mean so the line can keep going up.