Quarantine Diaries #2: The Future Is A Scary Place – With Playlist

I’ve been itching to do a Coronavirus Diary with a playlist, like the one above, but, sometimes, i don’t know what to say. Somedays, I want to say a million things like, when Trump advises we drink detergent and catch some sun after or Dan Patrick says that money means more than staying alive. Yet, even on those days, saying anything feels contrite. Luckily, music fills the space that  spoken words can’t.

I chose the songs above, in particular, because they all have a sense futurism, either in sound or theme. They are all songs where the artist warps into this future they hope will be better, but some realize either it will probably be the same or that it isn’t possible. After all, who predicted this pandemic would happen? Yet, in the same way, life as we knew it, changed within days, I like to hope that “Better” could come with such lightning speed. It, probably, will not go all The Flash anytime soon, but, who knows? Maybe, one day, you’ll have a really good day that will start many more.

All in all, this pandemic is an emotional high and low. It feels both revelatory to the times, but also a very heightened version of the same. Crazy people disagreeing with facts, the poor suffering and dying, and good persons, on the front-lines, giving aid and others providing good vibes and a few laughs. Yet, the good thing about looking at history, is that the future was always a scary place to everyone before us. They survived, and, better yet, they created.