Maybe there’s another layer if you know who he is but I think it’s just some fucking guy and the point is the words and his facial expression/body language.

So instead of tweets now people put their little comments as the caption to a short form video where they just stare at the camera and then other people screencap that and share it like an image macro, but instead of socially awkward penguin it’s this fuckin guy.

It’s the 12 step (serenity) prayer

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And matches to make it everyone’s problem.

Obviously they’ve made some changes over the years

Probably right.

I’m half a century old or so, I’ve seen the cycles the US goes through and the world broadly. I know that the pendulum always swings, and sometimes it swings further in one direction than another, but that just means the back-swing is going to go further and harder. But those are generally 20 - 30 year cycles or so, that’s how long it takes for a new generation who forgot everything about their childhood to take the reigns and start the cycle over.

The thing that we need to shake off our species though is the idea of an “end.”

Your laundry never ends. Washing the dishes never ends. You never exercise so much you don’t need to anymore. You will always be moving forward in time and through periods of change. Yes, this too shall pass… to be replaced by new things that will also pass.

If we could get better about managing our present moment we wouldn’t need to keep staring out for some imagined end-of-the-road where everything is fine and we’re suddenly happy again for some reason. While you’re staring out looking for that, your current life and opportunity to find peace is just rapidly slipping past.

May 2045 probably

Elaborate

Life’s a bitch and then you die, that’s why we get high.