Have you ever wondered what life would be like if we could hit reset?
not just a fresh start,
but a full-on simulation reboot?
imagine waking up in the year 2000…
…a time when for me,
america was actually great.
as of late in the 20s,
it’s been super peachy!
Earthquakes.
Fires.
Planes dropping from the sky.
Food shortages.
People are either furious or depressed AF
Civil war on the horizon.
International conflicts brewing.
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 2, 2025
is godzilla next?
i was watching a live with a white wolf named good trouble.
his content dissects how cooked we are in the wilderness of this political chaos.
during his latest live the other night,
he said something that stuck with me:
“I wish we could wake up and the simulation was reset back to 2000.
Al Gore would have won and we could’ve avoided the mess of this timeline.”
if that were true,
i’d wake up as a kid again,
looking up in my bedroom with the glow in the dark stars on my ceiling.
my mother would still be alive and didn’t me she had leukemia yet.
she might be sleeping,
as she worked over nights,
or coming back in from bringing my sister to school.
from what i can remember,
the forests felt different then…
Lighter
Hopeful
Like anything was possible for the future
i was also a kid who wasn’t paying bills.
tbh,i rarely heard my mother complaining about society or politics.
i had thoughts as i went back in my mind of time:
What if that election had gone differently that year?
Would life have changed for all of us?
Would some of us have taken different paths?
Would some of us never have been born?
Would 9/11 have actually happened?
and here’s the bigger question:
What if we are in a loop?
Stuck in some kind of purgatory,
reliving the same life over and over until we figure out how to break the cycle?
what has to happen to start the catalyst for change?
I mean you could totally make the argument about going back to the year 2000 as a turning point. There is definitely a difference pre-9/11 vs. post-9/11 in the United States. Al Gore as president, I believe 9/11 doesn’t happen and even if it does, the way we handled it would’ve been a lot different.
I think it’s also interesting the difference between the Black and White perspective. I would argue that for the Black community in the modern era the turning point was the 80s and the Ronald Reagan administration. Reagan was awful with how he handled the H.IV/A.I.D.S crisis, the Crack epidemic, the War on Drugs which decimated Black neighborhoods, and the cutting of many social programs and the social safety net.