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Virtually every person I talk to who remembers will tell you that the 90s were the peak of just about everybody in the country getting along and feeling good ab
by brightball 3y ago
Virtually every person I talk to who remembers will tell you that the 90s were the peak of just about everybody in the country getting along and feeling good about the future.
Then widespread internet and social media happened, which shortly led people into echo chambers while simultaneously gutting the institution of journalism.
- mr_toad 3y agoWe didn’t light the fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots “the most destructive period of local unrest in U.S. history”
- Loughla 3y ago>90s were the peak of just about everybody in the country getting along and feeling good about the future. What? All joking aside, what the Fuck? Rodney King. LA riots. NAFTA protests. Branch Davidians. Presidential sex scandals. First desert storm. Political correctness. Women's movements. Bosnia et.al. Rwanda. HIV/AIDS epidemic. Ruby Ridge. Wage stagnation. The final death of small town commerce due to Wal-Marts. And these are just the things I thought of in the last minute. I'm sure there are a ton more issues I'm missing. The people you talk to are doing what people have done since the beginning of time. They're remembering the past fondly while forgetting the bad.