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The 90's were too futuristic to seem like it was that long ago. Particularly with the speed of technology and how we were inundated with new predictions like the mars rover and the genome project. Its hard to look back at an era that was always looking forward.
I was born in 1988 so I was a child of the 90s and in my opinion it was the best decade ever to be a kid... and maybe the best decade for humanity ever.... though probably everybody thinks that about the decade when he or she was a kid. There was just an overall feeling, at least in the Western world, that history was over and we had moved into a permanent prosperous peace. Right now I'm listening to 90s music on marathon and there is not a thing I would change about the decade.
I do think 90s nostalgia will be a thing in the next five years, and like all nostalgia, it will miss the point entirely.
I was born in 1988 so I was a child of the 90s and in my opinion it was the best decade ever to be a kid....
Right. That was the decade when kids couldn't ride in a car unless they were in a straitjacket, and couldn't go out and play in the yard unless their mother was watching them, and couldn't ever play in somebody else's yard. And it was impossible for kids to "play a game" at home if the electricity went off. And their mother had to have a full-time job, too, to pay the health insurance premium. And kids had to go through a metal detector to get into school.
Right. That was the decade when kids couldn't ride in a car unless they were in a straitjacket, and couldn't go out and play in the yard unless their mother was watching them, and couldn't ever play in somebody else's yard. And it was impossible for kids to "play a game" at home if the electricity went off. And their mother had to have a full-time job, too, to pay the health insurance premium. And kids had to go through a metal detector to get into school.
Great decade to be a kid.
That's not really true unless you lived in Chicago or something. My schools in California and Montana never had metal detectors. I often wandered away from home though never more than a few blocks, but my mom would let me walk to school by myself 1 km away when I was 8/9 years old. The 'latch-key' phenomenon was actually worse in the 70's and 80's.
With that said, I would have preferred being a kid in the 70's or 80's. I found the 90's was kind of a hostile and cynical time period, I think the 80's especially seemed more innocent.
It may be a matter of cultural fragmentation. Motion was talking about the television programs of the '60', '70's and '80's and tv is a good illustration of this dynamic. The spread of cable and dish tv, with the jump from viewers having seven or eight channel from which to choose, to having 50-70 channels, and now hundreds of channels, means that fewer people will be watching a specific program. The measure of success has diminished in that once a 50% share of the market for a particular program was the mark of a huge hit. Now programs which draw 12% of the total audience are the leading "hits." Of the five highest rated programs broadcast in the US, all were aired between 1977 and 1983, just before the advent of cable.
So people today have less in common over which to be nostalgic.
I was born in 1988 so I was a child of the 90s and in my opinion it was the best decade ever to be a kid... and maybe the best decade for humanity ever.... though probably everybody thinks that about the decade when he or she was a kid. There was just an overall feeling, at least in the Western world, that history was over and we had moved into a permanent prosperous peace. Right now I'm listening to 90s music on marathon and there is not a thing I would change about the decade.
I do think 90s nostalgia will be a thing in the next five years, and like all nostalgia, it will miss the point entirely.
The 80s was the best time to be a kid in Westchester. All those preppy girls in Ray-Bans and mom jeans dancing to the Go-Gos... :-)
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