Wow. Yes, actually Upon thinking about it a little bit I feel like this might be the biggest difference between growing up now vs then, because I feel like every zoomer I see on the internet is like "we're all fucked, can't wait to die" etc
somehow i feel like growing up in the 90s i was sort of ambiently promised by american culture at large that everything would be basically fine. does that resonate with anyone else?
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yeah no kidding. been increasingly getting that sense about zoomers and that’s just very indirectly from like browsing knowyourmeme
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yeah. but when 9/11 happened something shifted in me. i was like... “oh. we’re not safe.”
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yeah that's definitely when it shifted in american culture at large. i think i personally was barely affected by 9/11 on an emotional level tho (grew up in washington). for me i think the moment i stopped believing things would be basically fine was AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol
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I still feel that way
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honestly i'm finding it's kinda more fun to feel like civilization is falling apart, there's a sense of freedom associated to it for me
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Oh totally. The cracks were there (name an optimistic sci-fi movie after 1980), but the main narrative was “it just seems to work out.” Welcome to the weirding, right
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damn millennials
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The 90s resembled closely a denouement for most proponents of American culture.
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The supposed great enemy (the Soviet sphere) had just collapsed, and with it the main known x-risk (nuclear winter). Real GDP growth >3%. Relatively stable cultural & political institutions. Information superhighway coming to homes—seemed strictly good then. Discount airlines...
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