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Just about every time period sucks
The only time period that was enjoyable was only enjoyed by a small portion of the global population at any one time
Many people on this thread like to point out the 80s, 90s or early 2000s were great … it is true for only about maybe 10% of the global population … the rest were living with developing nations with very little and everyone still struggling like they always had
The world has always been the same throughout history … I’m guessing about 70% of the population lived just enough to get by … 29% lived with absolutely nothing … and 1% lived with everything
And it’s still the same today.
as someone from a developing nation, the good ol days were good because i was a kid.
i think thats the theme here.
We are a boring, dumb, ugly species on a boring, dumb, ugly planet in a boring, dumb, ugly universe.
This works on longer scales, but I have to be honest with you, I don’t know if me looking back at the late 90s and going “yeah, that went wrong at some point” is just my generation’s version of being nostalgic for a time where you were oblivious to the crappy stuff or a fairly objective assessment of modern world trends.
I DID grow up in what amounted to a developing nation, several of my neighbors couldn’t read or write and I didn’t have a telephone or a VCR until well into the nineties, but also… you know, the post 9-11 period doesn’t seem like a particular uptrend for civilization, in hindsight.
- Fucking unbeatable.
Unless you are gay or trans, then you’re pretty much viewed as very ‘beatable.’
People will always be nostalgic for their childhood because they did not understand what was going on in the world at the time and had little to no responsibilities.
I suggest “The Way We Never Were” by Coontz if anyone is inclined to read about the sort of manufactured history surrounding American society and particularly the family unit. In some ways the past was better, but we somehow managed to get rid of the good parts, make up parts that never happened, sidestep the bad, and make the present worse.
The only good parts about the past is that families could be supported on a single income. Pretty much everything else was worse.
I’d suggest reading about it before making such a statement. Understand that the single income created its own problems. It kept women isolated thanks to the way postwar housing developed, kept them out of the workforce, dismantled their social network, resulted in suburbs that drove longer commutes, etc. women have had it hard in society for quite a while, but the separated family unit made it harder. These things also dismantled the “village” support network that people had, along with extended family and community that could help people.
Yeah, the wealth that allowed the luxuries of a single family home in the ‘burbs was great, but it came at a price.
I just wanna go back, back to 1999
I agree. I don’t need a historian for this. I remember it, and yeah it definitely wasn’t perfect. But I am not convinced I’m sugar coating it through retrospection. Mid to late 90s was peak civilization as far as I can tell.
Mid to late 90s was peak civilization as far as I can tell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_1990–2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States
Who gets to decide that tho?
I do if I’m phrasing it like that.
I’d prefer a few years earlier, the 90’s was rad dude.
The HIV epidemic was something to behold!
By the end of the decade (1999), it was estimated that around 34 million people were living with HIV/AIDS worldwide.
As of 2021, the number of people living with HIV globally was approximately 38 million.
Let’s go back and spread awareness and condoms dude, then we smoke a blunt and do 90’s stuff!
Agent Smith was right. It was the peak of our civilization.
I had no significant outside world problems in the 90s and early 2000s.
You could get repair manuals and replacement parts for practically anything, and you could even get away with blowing up ant beds in your yard with improv devices.
Everything seemed to change after Hurricane Katrina though, like the flood waters wiped out all the ant beds I wanted to blow up… 😢
9/11 in 2001 change quite a bit.
Often, when people learn that I love history, they ask me which time I’d prefer to live in.
I always like the face of surprise they make when they hear my answer.
“Today.”
I wish I lived tomorrow.
You will live tomorrow tomorrow.
Tomorrow is today and it’s not awful. It’s still a bit too slow though, what if I wished I lived next week - or heavens forbid, August 32., 2069?
They mean the US in the 80s and 90s when we were burning through all of the goodwill and progress made in the prior half century.
Good will? I mean I imagine there was some good will in the aftermath of WW2 but I’m not sure the Truman Doctrine caused a lot of good will.
This is why I love vaporwave. It romanticizes the past and criticizes it at the same time.
Hypnospace Outlaw is such a great work of pseudo historical fiction. (Or Digital: A Love Story if you want more 80’s than 90’s)
Depends on when you are and when you want to return to. I’d be happy with anything between 1992-2000 ce
Yeah, if I was an adult mid-2000s, that would be the best time, IMO.
I specified 1992-2000 to avoid GWB and 9/11
A year or two before the Great Recession?
Where is also paramount, where and when. Think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
True, I would like to be in the USA in that time. I would not want to be in Kosovo in that time.
As long as you weren’t queer.
I am and I was. I would prefer 1992-2000 over today
I was pretty depressed in that period, I didn’t know it at the time but my parents divorce had more impact than I realized. Only later did I find out that feeling bleak and gray and tired wasn’t a normal state of affairs.
Yet I yearn for the idea that things were moving forward. I would have loved to have had my current mindset in that period. It’s been hard overcoming depression whilst neocons destroyed the mortality I was lead to believe in under the banner of Fukushimas ‘end of history’.
But hey at least my own brain isn’t trying to sabotage me anymore and I’m in a relatively good place. So even when personally have my shit in order is essential to support the younger generations and fight the greedy swine who orchestrated the current state of affairs.
One word: dentistry. Medical science in general yeah, but especially dentistry.
I’d be fine with going back to a time before the heritage foundation and reganomics
That would be moving to a more racist time also with bad economic policy?
Idk it’s always “we” to go back in time. Nah just me. My preferred moment in history is not gonna be the same as someone elses.“we” shouldn’t go back to any period, because that’s not a one size fits all.
See, I just want what I consider to be the good parts brought forward, not going backwards
Since, obviously, I know best for everyone, everywhere, you can rest assured that I will only reinstate the cool shit that you will also love. No, you’ll love it. Whether you want to or not
