Things can only get….
When Michael Cimino directed Heaven’s Gate in 1980, did he know Howard the Duck was just around the corner with Gigli still to be green-lighted two decades later?
When the Philadelphia Athletics lost 117 games (out of 153) in 1916, could they have imagined that a slightly longer season and Casey Stengel’s 1962 Mets losing 120 (out of 160) would drop them down a line in the baseball loser record books?
In 1978 when Henry Ford II threw Chrysler’s future savior and automotive industry guru Lee Iacocca out of Ford Motors, could he suspect that John Sculley would come along to throw founder and future world-changer Steve Jobs out of Apple Computer in 1985?
And when the Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in early 1920 for $100,000 in production money for the ill-fated musical No, No, Nanette, did he know that there would be….no wait, there actually never was a worse trade that that one (other than the $24 for Manhattan deal that predated).
So when George W. Bush, interviewed in connection with the 2013 opening of his presidential library, declared that “I did what I did and ultimately history will judge,” did he have some inside information that the current occupant would trounce his younger brother and end up making history the easiest grader in…well…history? https://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/george-w-bush-usa-today-interview-presidential-library-090417
So, at this point, in the midst of the second worst pandemic this country has ever experienced (and you know the rest of the depressing story of the past three plus years), with Lennon and McCartney’s Getting Better from 1967 not particularly resonating, maybe it’s Howard Jones circa 1985 who sounds more on point.
And do you feel scared? I do. But I won’t stop and falter. And if we threw it all away? Things can only get better. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa………