If you consider the early 2000s to be some sort of cultural peak do you think we will have another in your lifetime?
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Up until 9/11, for North America, maybe. After the collapse of the Soviet Union things felt pretty good. In my social circle there was a lot of optimism.
But we were on a neoliberal tear. A lot of the benefits we were enjoying (of globalization) are the cause of the spasm of conservatism we're seeing today.
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The 2000s!?!? The attitude era of this planet? Fuck no!
The 80s had the best music, the best fashion, the best TV, the most memorable movies, and awesome gadgets.
We'll never have the 80s again!
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The 2000s!?!? The attitude era of this planet? Fuck no!
The 80s had the best music, the best fashion, the best TV, the most memorable movies, and awesome gadgets.
We'll never have the 80s again!
looming threat of nuclear annihilation
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looming threat of nuclear annihilation
We still have that lmao
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The 80's sucked in my neck of the woods.
indiana?
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Extremely relevant:
Bo Burnham - 1985 -
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how long or short is this “lifetime” of which you speak? the 90’s is peak, you whipper-snapper.
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I think it depends on what people consider a peak. By 2000, the education system was already in trouble and wages had stagnated for 20 years. Glass/Steagall had been repealed, and GW was in power.
I think it came in the 80's, personally.
I guess I skew more towards the technology portion of it. Yes, technology was ramping up in the 80s but I think by the early 2000s the information age had solidified.
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how long or short is this “lifetime” of which you speak? the 90’s is peak, you whipper-snapper.
Ok but we are all focusing in on this 20 years span
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Ok but we are all focusing in on this 20 years span
yeah. wasn’t 1990 like 20 years ago?
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yeah. wasn’t 1990 like 20 years ago?
Ahh I'm old
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everyone's going to have a different answer for this but I believe we were at our best in the 90s in America
the key was all the transluscent cases on electronics. the future was optimistic and we were excited to see it. then came the brushed aluminum era when everything became boring again, like the beige plastic era, just more expensive.
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I guess I skew more towards the technology portion of it. Yes, technology was ramping up in the 80s but I think by the early 2000s the information age had solidified.
I can see an argument for it. The Internet was widespread and accessible to common people, but governments and major corporations hadn't really figured out how to completely abuse it yet.
But the real thing is probably that the peak of culture is probably based on whenever a person was between 5 and 25 years old. For most I think those were the good old days, no matter when they actually were.
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yeah. wasn’t 1990 like 20 years ago?
No. 1990 was, and will forever be, about 10 years ago.
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What I gather from this thread is that people probably like the decade the best that they grew up in
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indiana?
Cape Breton.
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Most people’s opinions here seem to be oriented around their youth. When we are just old enough to engage with the world in small and controllable ways, but still too young to really grasp the worst parts or feel partly responsible for them, it’s easy to feel optimistic about the world and our place in it. That optimism is what we look back on and long for because, as we age further, we gradually realize how misguided that optimism really is.
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The 2000s!?!? The attitude era of this planet? Fuck no!
The 80s had the best music, the best fashion, the best TV, the most memorable movies, and awesome gadgets.
We'll never have the 80s again!
You must have had access to the best drugs in the 80s because they were not what you describe at all.
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Respectfully, I think both the question and the premise are quite meaningless.
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The 2000s!?!? The attitude era of this planet? Fuck no!
The 80s had the best music, the best fashion, the best TV, the most memorable movies, and awesome gadgets.
We'll never have the 80s again!
Late 80s through late 90s was peak. Technology was booming. Everything was a start up. Everything was rad.
