Comparison:
. . . 2025 could be a year like that: a time when the basic assumptions about the way our world works are fed into the shredder.
John Simpson, who over the course of his reporting career has seen many world-altering events, decides that perhaps a shredder is the best means of characterizing the changes in the first parts of 2025. If you were creating the comparison, would a shredder or other device be your choice? Or would you go in a different metaphoric direction or concept?
Context:
Just occasionally, there are years when the world goes through some fundamental, convulsive change. 1968, with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Paris riots and the anti-Vietnam War protests in America, was one of them. 1989, the year of the Tiananmen massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, was another.
I was on hand to see each of these things happen, and from that perspective it seems to me that, only seven weeks in, 2025 could be a year like that: a time when the basic assumptions about the way our world works are fed into the shredder.
Citation:
Simpson, John. “John Simpson: 2025 Could be Year for the History Books as Trump Shreds Global Norms.“ bbc.com, 24 Feb. 2025. Web.
(Image design by Lee Aigue; base image courtesy of Bing Feb. 2025.)
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