discussion Choose a decade to live through…

[Alldeezy]

2000s at least we had BO section then 

 

Plus emo men were big there if I can go back and just be slightly older and re do it again Id finally live in a decade where I belong 

[NEX]

1 hour ago, theoghon said:

Why is 90s regarded 'peak' by some of y'all

(speaking of the west) Peak economically for an average person. Not yet horrors of terrorism. No mass migration fueled hateful populist politics. The tech was at a good level without messing up our lives and minds too much. No social media. No chronically online behaviours. People went outside to physically meet and interact with each other. Children played outside and with each other instead of being glued to gadgets. Perhaps the acceptance wasn't full for minorities, but most social aspects were well tolerated. There was strong, widely recognised and shared pop culture - currently it's way too fragmented, so there's less that's commonly shared among random people or even friends. Politics was cordial, there were a certain number of channels that everyone watched, which weren't crazy polarised. Disinformation wasn't rampant. There was still common sense and knowledge of basic historical and scientific things without conspiracy theories dominating public opinion. No overtourism. Climate change was still pretty dormant. Basically a lot of societal aspects were at their peak, while most of the downsides from previous decades weren't so bad any longer. It was far from perfect, but it was pretty good overall. Looking at society with the 90s lense the present day is giving nothing but mental illness in most aspects. It's like we're on an accelerated path to self destruction on a micro and macro scales. Even though we're at a peak technological and scientific knowledge, it's no longer trickling down to an average person, who is getting dumber and dumber and gets further bogged down in disinformation and further frying their brain with social media or some other crazy stuff. 

[305]

I wish I had been older during the 90s it seems so fun

[BlossomSoul]

No one picking the 80s is wild… 

[Onyxmage]

3 hours ago, Technicolor said:

I would have liked to live as a young adult during the 90s

Imagine being able to afford an apartment working a low paying job and just having fun.

[Onyxmage]

1 hour ago, BlossomSoul said:

No one picking the 80s is wild… 

Not when Ronald Reagan was president and made the gays enemy #1.

[TheArgonaut]

None?

[SoundsandSongs]

As someone who didn't exist in the 90s it's crazy to see the unanimous vote for 90s. 

 

90s seems so ancient and I don't know how I'd survive without widespread internet.

[AxelFox]

I wish I could live through the 90s as a teen on loop for eternity. 

 

It's truly been downhill ever since. 

[Johnny Jacobs]

9 hours ago, sugarysunflower said:

it all depends where you live though. If you were in Kuwait or Russia, you wouldn't want to live in the 90s

It's not great now either 

[Virgos Groove]

6 hours ago, NEX said:

Not yet horrors of terrorism. 

Not to be pedantic, but the 90s were actually a pretty big decade for terrorism. The WTC bombing, Timothy McVeigh, the Unabomber, Olympics bombing, Tokyo Metro, the 1998 embassy bombings, the failed Y2K plot,  Columbine…

[illia]

I'd go to the 1980s to experience life in Soviet Union and witness the beginning of its end