From way back then but still happening today…

How far do you have to go to come full circle?…

First of all, (don’t you hate when someone starts a statement with that? What a douche!) But, I digress… first of all, listening to 1989 album Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, more specifically Ms. Jackson’s Livin’ in a World (They Didn’t Make) and the ending struck me poignantly but so eerily. Nearly forty years ago the song fades out with a reporter saying words we have gotten way too familiar with today about gun violence and school shootings. I myself do not recall school shootings from the 80s – I was a kid in the 80s so I think I would have remembered school shootings. The first school shooting I remember hearing about on the news was Columbine like most of us. But the lyrics — again, FROM 1989 are included below just so you see what I mean. Eerie… right?