2022 may already be off to a rough start based on some cynical predictions from the mainstream media.
Over the past few days, some opinion pieces have offered pessimistic takes for the new year on everything from democracy to climate to the third year of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Los Angeles Times kicked off the first day of 2022 with an op-ed titled “Is the end nigh? Maybe, but we’ve survived so far.” Despite offering “true signs of light in the gloom,” writer Virginia Heffernan maintained that none of the gains made in 2021 mean “the end of the world is not nigh.”
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“Nothing keeps sleep at bay these days like huffing up a few articles about democracy’s doomsday,” Herrernan wrote.
The New York Times doubled down on the fear of democracy’s end in 2022 with an editorial lamenting, “Every Day is Jan. 6 Now,” referencing the Capitol riot last year.
“In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends. No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists,” the board wrote.
The Guardian also had a less-than-optimistic view of the new year, referring to 2022 as “another year of living dangerously.”
“There is the risk of new inter-state conflicts, exacerbated by the breakdown of the rules-based international order, and the spread of lethal autonomous weapons. All in all, for most people on Earth – and a handful in space – 2022 will be another year of living dangerously,” Simon Tisdall wrote.
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