I must confess I hardly find the time to keep updated on world events, a sad side-effect of being involved in a startup, manufacturing hell and freelancing at the same time.
Living in navel-gazing London hasn’t made things easier and if anything, for me, 2007 was the first year in a long time when the focus shifted away from the ongoing and evermore subliminal war in Iraq to sad, ridiculous and horrible small human stories.
From Britney Spears’s embarassing love and hate relationship with a paparazzi-ridden life, to Amanda Knox’s sadistic behavior in jail after a murder only Agatha Christie would have been tempted to write about, to Maddie McCanns sad yet banal disappearance (banal when so many others go missing every day in the UK alone) ending with articles on how to take a good Facebook profile picture, it’s as if we all desperately wanted to forget about bigger issues.
I thought that sustainability would actually lead the way with Al Gore dominating headlines in early spring, but as the months went by, not unlike war and obesity, apathy took over and it slowly became someone else’s problem, or marketing strategy.
Here’s to 2008, the year where hopefully, bigger things will matter again.
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