Modern everything is for the most part a crappier, yet nicer looking version of what we had in the 90s. We had TVs that you could bounce a fucking baseball off of and cell phones you could use to brain someone with. You could talk politics with someone on the opposing side and still understand their point of view. Political discussions didn't feel like you were speaking to a martian.
There was a general sense that everything was on steadily graded upward curve, where the present was ok and the future would be better still. We still had the space shuttle launching from time to time and it was generally assumed that our kids would be in a better place than us.
Even after 9/11 that feeling persisted for a long time. It wasn't until the later part of the 00s that it changed. Seeing Obama elected purely based on his skin color, seeing the companies who had taken part in the destruction of the economy given leadership over the changing of laws to assure it happened again. Seeing the massive divisions in race that suddenly began to pop up. Realizing that i could no longer debate someone on an issue because to them, everything had become an absolute.
People born in the 00s have had to grow up with a controlled economy, terrible race relations, and crumbling roads and they think that thia is the way things have always been. These people heard MAGA and instantly assumed thay we all wanted slavery back, because they have no idea that in 20-odd years we've gone from real and actual hope for the future to this. It's beyond their intellectual capacity to grasp.
Modern everything is for the most part a crappier, yet nicer looking version of what we had in the 90s. We had TVs that you could bounce a fucking baseball off of and cell phones you could use to brain someone with. You could talk politics with someone on the opposing side and still understand their point of view. Political discussions didn't feel like you were speaking to a martian.
There was a general sense that everything was on steadily graded upward curve, where the present was ok and the future would be better still. We still had the space shuttle launching from time to time and it was generally assumed that our kids would be in a better place than us.
Even after 9/11 that feeling persisted for a long time. It wasn't until the later part of the 00s that it changed. Seeing Obama elected purely based on his skin color, seeing the companies who had taken part in the destruction of the economy given leadership over the changing of laws to assure it happened again. Seeing the massive divisions in race that suddenly began to pop up. Realizing that i could no longer debate someone on an issue because to them, everything had become an absolute.
People born in the 00s have had to grow up with a controlled economy, terrible race relations, and crumbling roads and they think that thia is the way things have always been. These people heard MAGA and instantly assumed thay we all wanted slavery back, because they have no idea that in 20-odd years we've gone from real and actual hope for the future to this. It's beyond their intellectual capacity to grasp.