'Cause everything is out there,
And there's no limits out there,
We could be reaching out for anything if we try enough ..
What are people thinking when they write stuff like "best film of the decade" in 2012? Surely logic dictates, for simplicity's sake, that decades should be identified as starting and ending in years divisible by ten? Otherwise, any film made in 2012 dubbed "best of decade" just starts to infringe on the previous ones. Can't we wait until 2020 before deciding which films were the best of this decade? Or at least throw in a cheeky "so far" at the end?
This is becoming some sort of trend. Browsing on various forums, I've seen numerous cases of people becoming more pedantic than it's worth when it comes to decade identification. The best example I recall was when someone said that 2010 marked the start of a new decade. Then some dickhead had piped up with something like 'no, because 2009 was only the ninth year of that decade. 2010 will be the last one.Why are you saying its a new decade when it's not?'
Historically the First Decade did only have 9 years, but anyone who calls upon this in an argument has probably never gotten over the fact that being the smartest kid in your class counts for jack-all in the real world. And, it's probably safe for us to re-jig the decade system as we see fit, since anyone who was alive in that first century is long since dead.
With the possible exception of Jesus of course, but he's had over two thousand years to voice any concerns.
People like the Chinese probably don't have these sorts of arguments, namely because they've been playing with calendars and whatnot for more millennia than we have. It probably struck them as unimportant, in the face of thousands of years of history, to argue when a decade begins and ends purely so Westerners can work out which decade The Dark Knight Rises was the best in.
Their calendars probably got all screwed up anyway when we introduced the Gregorian calendar. In fact we're probably due for another calendar-changing tyrant any day soon, so don't get too attached.
And above all remember there will always be people like me in the world, willing to write inane entries about stuff you can find on the internet and deliver virtual karate chops to anyone who declares themself to be the arbiter and watchman of who delivers truth in the world. Ohhh yeahhhh.
