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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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.
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I wasn't doing drugs at age 8
But maybe that ecto cooler and ninja turtle snack pies were pretty close.
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No, because the Internet has gotten so raggedy and corporate and enshittified and that's where everything takes place.
