06-09-2020, 07:44 AM
I grew up in the 1990s. What I can tell you about that period is that it was very optimistic. People were living the good life on a whole. The economy in general.was doing well (aside from the brief recession in the early 90s), the entire culture was looking forward to "the new millennium" and the music at the time heavily reflected on those values. Even on the TV, aside from paranoid concerns about the millennium bug, the future was going to be great and we were going to enter a new period of technological advancement and prosperity.
It all came down after 2001 and since then a period of overall cynicism and despair has played a large role in determing people's points of view. I'll give you an example. Ask someone in 1999 what the future was going to be like and they would say it is going to be fantastic. Ask someone that same question in 2020 and the future is going to be Muslim civil wars, climate catastrophe and economic depressions
Huge difference.
It all came down after 2001 and since then a period of overall cynicism and despair has played a large role in determing people's points of view. I'll give you an example. Ask someone in 1999 what the future was going to be like and they would say it is going to be fantastic. Ask someone that same question in 2020 and the future is going to be Muslim civil wars, climate catastrophe and economic depressions
Huge difference.