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I was 13 when 9/11 happened, it certainly didn't seem nothingburger but personally I felt normalcy come back within weeks. It was actually when I started reading more about economics a couple years after the 2008 crisis that I got some kind of blackpilled.
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Prior to around 2011, I was still very naive and had that the sky is the limit feeling. I also remember around the time I became more pessimistic having a lot of arguments with friends who would fight tooth and nail to protect their normalcy bias
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90s optimism was a psychological window between the end of the cold war and beginning of 'War on Terror' but no one forgot the 1980s when nuclear conflict and sex plague and evangelical millenarianism was all the rage it wasn't naive optimism; it was waiting for a shoe to drop
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That's an interesting take, I felt a similar way from 2013 until right about now. Initially I kept thinking about trying to change people's minds or prepare myself in some way before deciding it was futile and I'll cross whatever bridge when I come to it
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Yeah Not a major recession really but recovery was quite slow Preview of 2008
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The boundless optimism started when the Berlin Wall fell. It seemed like liberal democracy had triumphed eternally.
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