Why We’re Calling Everything a ‘Hellscape’
The word captures our relationship to the daily chaos of recent years.
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The tumult of 2020 generated a host of new words to describe our changed circumstances. All of a sudden, everyone remembered the , needed to be distinguished from the rest of us, and socializing in a wasn’t just for the.” The fictional weather event known as a raged within our hearts and minds. And, as uncontrollable fires raged in the West and a gas-pipeline rupture opened in the Gulf of Mexico, one word skyrocketed to prominence, one with the intensity to describe the horrors we were bearing witness to: .
