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> I don't know, the 90s were kind of the peak. We've been pretty downhill since Are you sure this isn't just nostalgia? There was a lot going wrong in the 90's

• mixdup 3y ago
  like the other comment in reply to my parent, the 90s were relatively benign compared to the 60s/70s and the shit that 2001 ushered in Were the 90s perfect? No, of course not. We had a very long economic boom, technology advancing in a very optimistic way (vs. today where technology is actively making things worse) Now, what fed a lot of that caused a lot of our problems today--the 24 hour news cycle spun up, there were troubling economic trends like the fact that wages basically never went up after Reagan so I'm not saying that time has nothing to answer for
  • NoGravitas 3y ago
    The 90s were pretty benign if you didn't live in the wrong place (like Eastern Europe, where life expectancy cratered after the fall of the Soviet Union). I mean, my memories of the 90s were pretty great, but I was a young adult in the US.
• Apocryphon 3y ago
  It was the period between Cold War hysteria and War on Terror hysteria. Of course it was much better in crucial aspects.