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What times were not interesting?
by Jensson 1y ago
What times were not interesting?
- chris_wot 1y agoHe's semi-quoting the proverb "May you live in interesting times".
- nradov 1y ago1992-94
- throwaway31131 1y agoLos Angelinos would disagree https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
- astura 1y agoJust off the top of my head Ruby Ridge was 1992, Waco was 1993. 1993 was the bombing of the world trade center.
- hollerith 1y agoIn the US, from about 1975 to 2015 were less "interesting" (in the sense of "may you live in interesting times") than current times.
- harambae 1y agoAt least one year in that range where something happened.
- jbboehr 1y agoIDK, man, the '70s sounded pretty wild: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
- hollerith 1y agoWhich is why I wrote "1975" and not "1970" or "1972".
- dolmen 1y agoLike if nothing happened a day exactly 24 years ago...
- ebiester 1y ago1975-1988 we lived in the Cold War and the potential of nuclear strikes. The African, gay and trans communities (in particular but not exclusively) dealt with the AIDS epidemic. Iran moved to theocracy. In the 90s, we had the Iraq war that was not bad for the US but massively destabilized the region. In the 2000s we had 9/11 and let's not understate the fear from the Muslim community here. Africa has lived through famine and the pains of decolonization after their wealth was stripped and stolen over centuries. This is worse, but we have always lived in "interesting times" depending on where you were in the globe.