CrackyChanFan
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Everything is so fucked now and everything seems to point to toward some kind of authoritarian dystopia or some kind of apocalypse.
1945- 1989 was dominated by the shadow of the Cold War and the threat of nuclear apocalypse. There were economic crises and civil conflicts as well. social tensions initiated by the introduction of the pill and the loss of stigma around premarital sex in the 60s.
The world 2001-present has been a garbage fire far far worse than the Cold War years; 9/11 and the resulting Middle East wars, mass alienation due to technology and social media fucking us all up, the 2007 Great Recession which fucked so much (we never really recovered) the rise of rabid authoritarian left wing identity politics. Mind numbing conformity brought on by social media pressure culture. Female Hypergamy taken to an extreme level by online dating apps. Now fucking Covid wrecking shit and ushering in a new age of surveillance and control.
There was a magical interregnum in between. A time when the economy was so fucking good and everything was so relaxed; getting a job was easy and you could catch up easily. A time when music was so fucking good. Back in the 90s politics was barely newsworthy; nobody cared that much what your politics views were. The Soviet Union was dead. People said that history had ended. Youth subcultures were still a thing. Normal male sexuality wasnt stigmatised. Nerd culture based around computers and comic books and stuff like that was still actually nerd culture and not some shit ironic mainstream satirised cliche.
Call me a degenerate all you want, I just want to be a good looking Chad youth in 1994 and rock out to Nirvana, Weser, Oasis and Aerosmith. 1990s were the best.
I realised I am going to get a lot of comments calling me a retard for not choosing a less degenerate time as the human golden age. Somewhere in puritan England in the 17th century under Oliver Cromwell would be a world with no simping for sure. The Roman Empire under Marcus Aurelius?
This is missing the point. These were still times of ideological conflict and chaos. Back in the 90s a book was written called ‘The End of History’ by Francis Fukuyama. He argued that capitalist democracy had won and there would be no more grand ideological struggles or crises. That is what it seemed like.
Turns out he was completely wrong. The world today is full of intense ideological conflicts and misery and apocalyptic predictions.
The 90s was a time when a man could actually relax.
1945- 1989 was dominated by the shadow of the Cold War and the threat of nuclear apocalypse. There were economic crises and civil conflicts as well. social tensions initiated by the introduction of the pill and the loss of stigma around premarital sex in the 60s.
The world 2001-present has been a garbage fire far far worse than the Cold War years; 9/11 and the resulting Middle East wars, mass alienation due to technology and social media fucking us all up, the 2007 Great Recession which fucked so much (we never really recovered) the rise of rabid authoritarian left wing identity politics. Mind numbing conformity brought on by social media pressure culture. Female Hypergamy taken to an extreme level by online dating apps. Now fucking Covid wrecking shit and ushering in a new age of surveillance and control.
There was a magical interregnum in between. A time when the economy was so fucking good and everything was so relaxed; getting a job was easy and you could catch up easily. A time when music was so fucking good. Back in the 90s politics was barely newsworthy; nobody cared that much what your politics views were. The Soviet Union was dead. People said that history had ended. Youth subcultures were still a thing. Normal male sexuality wasnt stigmatised. Nerd culture based around computers and comic books and stuff like that was still actually nerd culture and not some shit ironic mainstream satirised cliche.
Call me a degenerate all you want, I just want to be a good looking Chad youth in 1994 and rock out to Nirvana, Weser, Oasis and Aerosmith. 1990s were the best.
I realised I am going to get a lot of comments calling me a retard for not choosing a less degenerate time as the human golden age. Somewhere in puritan England in the 17th century under Oliver Cromwell would be a world with no simping for sure. The Roman Empire under Marcus Aurelius?
This is missing the point. These were still times of ideological conflict and chaos. Back in the 90s a book was written called ‘The End of History’ by Francis Fukuyama. He argued that capitalist democracy had won and there would be no more grand ideological struggles or crises. That is what it seemed like.
Turns out he was completely wrong. The world today is full of intense ideological conflicts and misery and apocalyptic predictions.
The 90s was a time when a man could actually relax.
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