remember the worst year ever? in memes…

Apparently 2016 was 'the worst year ever'.. Syria, the Nice attack, Brussels, Brexit, Trump, record-hot temperatures, Berlin, the Dallas shooting, the loss of Cohen, Carrie Fischer, Bowie, Prince and George Michael dying on Christmas..

Terrifying events piled up on each other in 2016. But truth is, if we take 1348, 1492, 1836, 1919-2022 or even 2003 into consideration it might be a bit of an exaggeration....

As Charles Nevin puts it: "People in every age find reason to believe that their best times are behind them, and all that remains is decline and despair — that note of lament Cicero hit in 63 B.C.: “O tempora, o mores!” But far from uttering a generalized moan, the orator was castigating the corruption of his age as expressed in one man, Catiline, the author of a plot to seize power in Rome. The historian Sallust described Catiline as “reckless, cunning, treacherous, capable of any form of pretense or concealment. Covetous of others’ possessions, he was prodigal of his own; he was violent in his passions. He possessed a certain amount of eloquence, but little discretion. His disordered mind ever craved the monstrous, incredible, gigantic.” Historians can be so judgmental. I’m sure Catiline just wanted to make Rome great Again" .