![]() This is partly because hours and days and years are arbitrary divisions, and partly because many things are unfathomable in the moment they take place, and so simply don’t take place in that moment, but stretch out for however long it takes for us to be able to grasp them. Nothing is ever over when it’s over, only much later. The contemporary is looping back to its mother, that first decade of the millennium, which for so long left its questions unanswered, ribbons fluttering in the wind. George Bush: apparently moderate, by comparison. It is as if the decade before last is only now being tried, its witnesses called to the stand one by one. Or with the coming into public knowledge that Paris Hilton had been abused as a child, and that her seemingly unfounded mode of celebrity, the unhinged bling of her stardom, so endemic to that decade, could in fact be reread as the triumph of a victim. Or with the end of Britney’s conservatorship. It seems to me that the 00s ended with the final withdrawal of NATO soldiers from Afghanistan in 2021. Chains or Whips? The Cruel Decade and its Aftermath
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