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People's nostalgia for the 90s is really because it was the so-called "end of history" era, where the USSR fell and the US had no real enemies and everything se
by noobermin 4y ago
People's nostalgia for the 90s is really because it was the so-called "end of history" era, where the USSR fell and the US had no real enemies and everything seemed to be looking better. Then 9/11 happened and you had the Iraq war and then 2008. It's only in retrospect after that time that people think "hey, the 90s were actually pretty idyllic and peaceful." Hindsight is 20/20, etc etc.
As for why zoomers are now into the 90s, I think there is some picked up nostalgia from millennials around the 90s by osmosis, kind of like how there was some nostalgia for the 70s in the early 00s, limited as it was for millennials, which I think was about the time the boomers first had their midlife crisis (fits somewhat for now I think).
- taneq 4y agoDon't people feel nostalgic for the ~30 years ago in every decade? In the early '00s we were into the '70s, not the '90s. And the '80s were the decade that everyone tacitly agreed never happened, right up until a few years ago when they started making a comeback. I think it's just because that's how long it takes between the invention of a trend or style, and the majority of people not remembering a time when that was 'the new awful thing that the youth of today are doing'.
- kirillzubovsky 4y agoIt you haven’t seen it, take a look at a movie called “Midnight in Paris.” It does a great job highlighting how each generation find the past to be somehow better than current.