The thing I miss most about the 80s is that for a moment, briefly, there was something it was like to be simply human in a global sense. We said ‘think global, act local’ and there was something that was actually about, beyond sentimentality, between ~1984-89.
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We were the world...
But honestly, this sense expanded to a crazy degree in the 90s... the wall falling, Pepsi/Nike/Jordan all at planetary scale, "world music" (eg, Deep Forest), the same dance music playing in every country, real 3rd world awareness, WTO protests everywhere
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Nah not the consciousness. The stuff you mention I count as part of the unraveling.
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Or rather the unraveling was driven by the world getting too big to experience as a single consciousness
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I think the millennium turning is the beginning of the unraveling - we were all together, and yet there was nowhere to go now - the global community was palpably real for all of 1999 and the big day, dispelled and old news by the end of the week
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