After creating this video – which was an impressive feat since she had to get up every 10 seconds or so to take another photo – Zoe asked me if today was indeed the start of a new decade. I of course immediately went to my friends over at Google and here is what I found:
https://www.quora.com/When-does-the-next-decade-start-2020-or-2021
Apparently, like most human creations, it isn’t clear cut and you have people on both sides of the argument with fairly compelling cases. And the reality of the situation is that it doesn’t really matter since the year 2020 is just one designation for this year with many other calendars with a wide range of values attributed to this moment. In fact, many don’t even think that a new year started at midnight this morning so why the fuss over a decade? In addition, you may remember that according to the Mayan’s humanity doesn’t even exist now – which wouldn’t be a bad thing overall excepting that we would have to find our own food. On second thought, I am glad most of them are still around since they also invented such things as DentaBones, road trips, and steaks! Not to mention MILK BONES!
So I leave it to you. Was there a year 0? Is it a new decade or do we have to wait another year?
To be honest, I’m with Grandfather on this one who said he couldn’t (or wouldn’t?) be bothered by such trivialities.
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