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> Did the Nineties really feel like a period of stability? Or does it just feel like chaos now because I’m an adult? I was born a good decade before him but st
by xcambar 5y ago
> Did the Nineties really feel like a period of stability? Or does it just feel like chaos now because I’m an adult?
I was born a good decade before him but still wonders this very question. I asked my older friends and family, and it appears (empirically) that... there's no clear answer.
There's actually something specific about our times (information technology, ecology, western world mostly at peace for 70+ years...) but it very much relates to how much you look and feel about the world surrounding you.
The true difference is that much more people are aware and worried about the state of the world in our times than before. In that sense, the chaos seems much more apparent than it used to be.
Of course, this is anecdotal, not an evidence in any way :)
- vidarh 5y agoA lot of the chaos just wasn't apparent before because the information flow was slower more than because people didn't care. E.g. look at any news event, and consider how differently it looks if you only look at print news and one daily news broadcast vs. if you look at the same event online, with conflicting narratives, easy access to how foreign news media describes something, speculation, and far more granular reporting. Everything looks a lot more coherent and certain with just a few viewpoints and a couple of updates a day because you miss a lot of the mistakes and changing opinions and differences in bias.