Say Goodbye to 2020 in the Most Suitable Way Possible
A Dumpster Fire
As New Year’s Eve approaches and our social media timelines remind us of the last year, we have an opportunity to reflect. O’! How the naive declarations of “2020 vision” and “new year, new decade!” now seem mocking as a preface to the steady decline of posts depicting the novelty quarantine and Tiger King memes devolving into dark humor and self-coping mechanisms.
While 2020 has been bad for so many things, one thing it has been good for is creativity. I won’t say art, simply because the industry is not alone in its suffering and feeling the impacts of this pandemic. But the creativity! From the re-popularization of domestic arts and crafts to Gen Z spontaneously coming together to create and produce Ratatouille: the TikTok musical, the social commentary in the collective works produced this year will be a field day for future historians. Though incredibly stressful for many of us, the constraints we have been under have been fruitful for some creative types. Art is cathartic, and we are grasping at whatever we can to make some meaning out of all of this.
So, if you’re like me and ready to write this one off, you may be interested in doing so via a dumpster fire! Yes, a real dumpster fire. No burn risk involved. Why light the Yule log and roast marshmallows when you could simply email the dumpster fire and watch your 2020 grievances burn into ash and ruin?
The live stream takes place Monday to Friday 9–5 CST. However, replays are playing 24/7, so you can enjoy watching the symbolic installation through the holidays.
There really is something cathartic in anonymously sharing with others just how painful this year has been. We have all lost something, someone. The way of life we once knew is no more. Who knows what 2021 will bring. For now, at least, we can watch it all burn.
Visit the dumpster fire here to participate, watch the stream, and learn about their carbon offset.
