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. but when 9/11 happened something shifted in me. i was like... “oh. we’re not safe.”
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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AlphaGo was a big ruh-roh watershed moment for me too.
I had gone through a bit of a doomer-lite-ish phase late 2007- early 2010, and was a lot more sanguine for most of the 20teens, then in early 2016 it was like...pic.twitter.com/pwB7OMjp7TThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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