curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:
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.
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Might have been a better time to be an American, but it in a global sense it wasn't really a better time to be a human in general.
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Really? What's better today? Random terrorists driving trucks into crowds of people? At least the IRA conflict they directly targetted opposition not random carnage when ever. For anywhere not named Rwanda and Croatia/Yugoslavia I don't think many places are better off today. China and India maybe but mostly due to advancement but the spoils of which are limited to a very small upper class of people.
