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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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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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.
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You must have had access to the best drugs in the 80s because they were not what you describe at all.
I wasn't doing drugs at age 8
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Robot UBI will be awesome. The price floor of automated AI slop will make everything better because worse will not exist.
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Respectfully, I think both the question and the premise are quite meaningless.
Thank you for not engaging with it
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Are... are there people who think of that time as a cultural peak?
If that's the bar, then yeah, we've had at least one since then and are due for another soon.
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The world is a terrible place.
The world is the best place it's ever been.
The world could be much better.
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Are... are there people who think of that time as a cultural peak?
If that's the bar, then yeah, we've had at least one since then and are due for another soon.
Yeah I think most people will pick a timeframe in their life that is nostalgic and good. Like my dad would talk about the 70s, I talk about the 2000s, my kids will probably talk about
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That's a fascinating question. I just can't wrap my head around the early 2000s as a time of Excellence. I think of it as a time of impending collapse. You have 9/11, the start of decades long horrific Wars, growing Mass government surveillance and authoritarianism, extreme political fracturing, ramping up to a massive financial disaster, and so much more. Now that's true of every time every time has massive flaws and Horrors in them, but that's one I just can't really wrap my head around thinking anything else of.
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That's a fascinating question. I just can't wrap my head around the early 2000s as a time of Excellence. I think of it as a time of impending collapse. You have 9/11, the start of decades long horrific Wars, growing Mass government surveillance and authoritarianism, extreme political fracturing, ramping up to a massive financial disaster, and so much more. Now that's true of every time every time has massive flaws and Horrors in them, but that's one I just can't really wrap my head around thinking anything else of.
The 90s were prettygood. It kinda all started downhill with the Brooks Brothers Riot and SCOTUS calling a presidential election instead of the votes.
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Yeah I think most people will pick a timeframe in their life that is nostalgic and good. Like my dad would talk about the 70s, I talk about the 2000s, my kids will probably talk about
the before days with drinkable waterthe 2030sI miss 2015. It was a last gasp of hope
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The 90s were prettygood. It kinda all started downhill with the Brooks Brothers Riot and SCOTUS calling a presidential election instead of the votes.
Started downhill isn't right. Accelerated is closer.
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Yeah I think most people will pick a timeframe in their life that is nostalgic and good. Like my dad would talk about the 70s, I talk about the 2000s, my kids will probably talk about
the before days with drinkable waterthe 2030sI feel like music, film, comedy, visual art, literature, all just keep getting better and better. I haven't seen anything I'd call a "peak".
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The 90s were prettygood. It kinda all started downhill with the Brooks Brothers Riot and SCOTUS calling a presidential election instead of the votes.
Also a couple genocides thrown in there don't forget.
