monocle_layton said:
The world wasn't perfect. There's simply a nostalgia effect from many of us. Technology, medicine, science, and much more have advanced in astonishing rates. I am fine with setting aside the Fresh Prince or my Gamecube if it means I can live in a world which manages to fix much of our problems |
It's not just nostalgia though I think the 90s was geniunely a safer time. After the Cold War ended, basically there was no major international conflict, it was 10 years of relative peace (unfortunately Yugoslavia/Croatia and Rwanada not so much though, but globally), economic properity, etc. Turn on the news in the 90s and the biggest worry was if this doofus going to jail or not:
Literally the above was all that was on the news 24/7 for like two straight years, lol.
Turn on the news now and it's like we're living some depressing dystopian alternate history time line with Trump as president, terrorist attacks all over the place, Russia reasserting itself militarily, etc. etc.
Basically we traded all that for smartphones, PVRs, and faster internet.
