That’s a fascinating question. I just can’t wrap my head around the early 2000s as a time of Excellence. I think of it as a time of impending collapse. You have 9/11, the start of decades long horrific Wars, growing Mass government surveillance and authoritarianism, extreme political fracturing, ramping up to a massive financial disaster, and so much more. Now that’s true of every time every time has massive flaws and Horrors in them, but that’s one I just can’t really wrap my head around thinking anything else of.
What I gather from this thread is that people probably like the decade the best that they grew up in 🙃
I think it depends on what people consider a peak. By 2000, the education system was already in trouble and wages had stagnated for 20 years. Glass/Steagall had been repealed, and GW was in power.
I think it came in the 80’s, personally.
No, because the Internet has gotten so raggedy and corporate and enshittified and that’s where everything takes place.
The 2000s!?!? The attitude era of this planet? Fuck no!
The 80s had the best music, the best fashion, the best TV, the most memorable movies, and awesome gadgets.
We’ll never have the 80s again!
looming threat of nuclear annihilation
We still have that lmao
Not for humanity. I think AI will develop more sophisticated culture and become the major driver of progress at some point in the future.
No. We might have the cultural equivalent of an “Indian summer”, where things briefly seem to get better, but overall, humanity is on the downswing. We’re ruining our environment and draining our resources. Not enough people in power are motivated to fix things, or at least keep them from getting worse. Most popular culture will be an increasingly frantic and transparent effort to ignore the collapse of human civilization.
