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Just realized this generalizes to: 1950-90 American culture will be the last common ground humanity will share. It’s the genesis block. After this it’s all forks.
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the reason we only have 80s Movie Part 25 now is not lack of originality but an excess of it - items of shared culture must be borrowed from a time when such things existed
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i wonder how our notion of thematic decades will evolve over time. if you throw an ‘80s party, basically everyone knows what that entails. will we have the same tacit agreement about the culture/aesthetics of a ‘10s party, or are there already too many forks?
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I think it takes time for decadal themes to emerge. Did we have as strong a picture of the 80s in the 90s as we do today? Wondering aloud. At the same time, you can tell Curb Your Enth. is a 00s show. Not a 90s or 10s one.
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Hmm. By the same yardstick the 2000s should be clear by now. But they haven’t - your point. I wouldn’t know what to bring to a 2000s party other than my Nokia phone (in my belt holster) and Red Hat cap.
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There are schilling points in event memory, like 9/11 and recession, but we no longer process them the same. Game of Thrones, MCU, Harry Potter, etc represent a Venn diagram of references with a smaller overlap than 90s sitcoms. And in the 1950s everyone actually loved Lucy.