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Spoken like a millennial ;) The 90s were awesome but I've heard from Gen Xers that the 80s was like the start of an awesome party and the 90s was a continuatio

Spoken like a millennial ;) The 90s were awesome but I've heard from Gen Xers that the 80s was like the start of an awesome party and the 90s was a continuation of that party albeit later in the night. Still, we can all agree America died on 9/11.

Apocryphon 4y ago
While the '80s had a lot of extravagant excess, but on the other hand there were also AIDS epidemic, crack epidemic, ecological disasters. Not to mention that the excess was built on political and economic changes that led to long-term problems down the road.
- FrontierPsych 4y ago
  The bad stuff is always easy to ignore. The question is - which is the funnest time? The most interesting? The 1980s. I've been around from the 1970s to 2023. Easily 1980s were the best. Maybe they were not if you lived out in the middle of Nebraska in a town of 200 people, but in that case, no decade is great. Options are limited. You watch the grass grow, or you watch the paint dry. I was very young in the 1960s, but I always thought that the women of the late 1960s were the most attractive. More natural, more open. Starting in the 1980s, very, very slowly, women became more and more closed off, building shells around themselves. Now they are hard beetle carapaces. Guys pretty much have stayed the same. I've had many work interactions with people in their late teens to mid 20s, where I have been by far the oldest. We get along great, but that's what I've noticed. But like any era, there are sweet people, too. It's just the proportions have changed.
snozolli 4y ago
I grew up in the 80s. There was a very real fear of being vaporized by a nuclear bomb at any moment. The 90s was a great time in America because, for us, it was immensely peaceful, prosperous, and hopeful.
zirgs 4y ago
Meanwhile after 9/11 things started getting better in Eastern Europe. Less crime, less corruption. Joining EU and NATO. Rising living standards. More options to travel, work and do business. My coutry's GDP per capita has more than tripled since then.
derbOac 4y ago
As gen X, I'd agree with the first part about the 80s. The 90s were good too, but I think there was also some sense that it was all fake or a house built on sand or something — the 90s were the decade of Nirvana and The Matrix after all. I don't generally subscribe to sweeping generalizations about eras being overall good or bad in the absence of data though. I'm not sure any decade of my life has been better or worse in any way that I could point to general societal trends (industry or major sector trends are different).

Apocryphon 4y ago

While the '80s had a lot of extravagant excess, but on the other hand there were also AIDS epidemic, crack epidemic, ecological disasters. Not to mention that the excess was built on political and economic changes that led to long-term problems down the road.

FrontierPsych 4y ago
The bad stuff is always easy to ignore. The question is - which is the funnest time? The most interesting? The 1980s. I've been around from the 1970s to 2023. Easily 1980s were the best. Maybe they were not if you lived out in the middle of Nebraska in a town of 200 people, but in that case, no decade is great. Options are limited. You watch the grass grow, or you watch the paint dry. I was very young in the 1960s, but I always thought that the women of the late 1960s were the most attractive. More natural, more open. Starting in the 1980s, very, very slowly, women became more and more closed off, building shells around themselves. Now they are hard beetle carapaces. Guys pretty much have stayed the same. I've had many work interactions with people in their late teens to mid 20s, where I have been by far the oldest. We get along great, but that's what I've noticed. But like any era, there are sweet people, too. It's just the proportions have changed.

snozolli 4y ago

I grew up in the 80s. There was a very real fear of being vaporized by a nuclear bomb at any moment. The 90s was a great time in America because, for us, it was immensely peaceful, prosperous, and hopeful.

zirgs 4y ago

Meanwhile after 9/11 things started getting better in Eastern Europe. Less crime, less corruption. Joining EU and NATO. Rising living standards. More options to travel, work and do business. My coutry's GDP per capita has more than tripled since then.

derbOac 4y ago

As gen X, I'd agree with the first part about the 80s. The 90s were good too, but I think there was also some sense that it was all fake or a house built on sand or something — the 90s were the decade of Nirvana and The Matrix after all. I don't generally subscribe to sweeping generalizations about eras being overall good or bad in the absence of data though. I'm not sure any decade of my life has been better or worse in any way that I could point to general societal trends (industry or major sector trends are different).