Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, and the even more lofty Nobel Peace Prize, are the most prestigious and coveted awards that recognize the endeavors or accomplishments (outside of science) benefiting mankind by a person or a group of people.
As I despair about what is happening, both to our country and the world, where authoritarianism is taking or has taken hold, I wish one or both of these awards could be awarded to the people who are trying to fight it.
It may not be a universal aspect of human nature, but most people crave or at least appreciate recognition for efforts they’ve expended to achieve, or are trying to achieve. People like Trump lust after it. Most others, from Time’s award to the Nobels, to winners of Oscars, Emmys, or Pullitzers, at least get a rush when they win one.
My nomination for the Time/Nobel can be divided into categories, though this really isn’t necessary. It includes everyone who participated in a demonstration against an authoritarian leader, everyone who shared by talking or writing about what was happening, and in a different way, everyone who risked or gave their lives fighting it in Ukraine.
I wish one or both of these awards could be given now. I have no doubt that millions of us are despairing. We need a boost.
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