This week marks the halfway point in the year 2025. In what has largely been considered a chaotic year, with mid-air collisions, protests following the second election of Donald Trump, ICE raids, and now recent war declarations with Iran. Only time will tell what the next remaining months of 2025 will bring.
Checking-In On The Last 6 Months
This article is meant to be a check in as to what the year has brought thus far. At play, many things from entertainment, to politics, health, and education are in the arena of public dissection and discourse. It is impossible to turn on the television, open up a newspaper, turn on a laptop, or scroll through a phone and not see a controversial headline that will be scrutinized in the days to follow.
Hysteria and Apathy Surround Events of 2025
However, war, political unrest, and travel disasters are not unfamiliar events in American history. Moreover, all of these have happened within the last 50 years. Why is it now that these occurrences feel so fatal? What does it say about the state of culture and society that there seems to be an interesting dichotomy of hysteria and apathy surrounding the events of 2025? Moreover, what does it say about culture and society that these events are happening again?
5 Years Removed by a Global Pandemic
5 years removed from the dawn of the 2020’s that was kicked off by a global pandemic, there has been much discourse surrounding how many of the rights fought for and won are beginning to be challenged and overturned. According to a recent article in The Guardian, since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in three years ago, abortions still continue to be on the rise. With recent slashes to policy surrounding access to healthcare for the LGBTQIA+ community, the war on fundamental rights continues to be waged.
Never at any point in the United States history has there been such a swift overhaul of traditions and rights that once made America great. The United States of America has long stood on the principle of being a melting pot and a place where anyone can achieve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But it seems as though even that notion is starting to deteriorate.
There were many movements that have come before. The Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement, the Gay Rights Movement, the #BlackLivesMatter Movement, the #MeToo Movement.
It seems as though everything that has unraveled so far in 2025 is undermining everything those movements stood for.
