Was there a single good thing that happened this entire decade? I'm drawing a huge blank. All that comes to mind is terrorism, mass surveillance, endless war, pop culture reaching peak degeneracy with tranny weirdos being hyped up as something to be celebrated, big banks crashing the world economy and escaping the slightest punishment, an apathetic and fatigued populace, and what else? What am I missing?
It doesn't even feel like there was a unifying theme or vision that defines this decade, it was just ten years of nonstop shit and feeling worn down and directionless.
So basically the 90s. Any decade with a libshit president is garbage.
Anthony Richardson
The 90s at least had the dot-com boom and technological progress that made it seem we were going somewhere. It plateaued in the 2000s.
Angel Gonzalez
The first half of this one was worse. But the future is looking bright.
Leo Ward
You are right op. The 2000s sucked as a decade.
Dylan Jackson
We got some good vidya until 2009. But that's about it.
Juan Rodriguez
Bionicle, rock music, 4chan and the 6th (and early 7th) generation of gaming don't make up for the wasted lives due to the Iraq War, the recession and Obama's presidency.
Thomas Anderson
Come to think of it, we ended the '90s on one of the darkest notes ever: Y2K. Millions of people believed the world was going to end on January 1, 2000. People were hoarding food and water and moving innawoods to prepare for it.
That's not a good way to start off a decade.
Blake Brown
Planned obsolescence. I know it didn't really gain traction until mid/late-2000's, but if I had to pick any fucking theme for that chunk of time, I would pick that. In my opinion, it led to more cancer in the 2010's in terms of consumerism. Big companies sat around manufacturing needs, wants, and desires for products that were re-hashes of things that already existed. They just reskinned them and sold them like they were something new. Perceived scarcity and fashion trends made this even worse. Because tech started learning from Ty, they were able to pull this off. From a strategic communication perspective, it's the pinnacle of marketing, even though it causes damage to the population and leaves people numb when it comes to advertising. That being said though, it caused more havoc leading into THIS decade than it ever did in the last one. Part of the problem in the 2000's was also the entirety of the Iraq and the slow-motion car crash that was 9/11 and its fallout. People turned to escapism because questioning the motives of anybody was looked down upon. The media shilling went into overdrive, second to what we saw with the election, to cover up all the bullshit going on in the Middle East. Simple word changes, like calling a bombed-out area a "village" instead of a "town" gave people this false sense of hope that "terrorism" was being "defeated" and absolutely nothing suspicious was going on at all. Obama didn't fix jack shit at all either. Identity politics became mainstream, because speaking against a nigger based on policy made you subhuman scum. This also led to the spread and total sperging out of critical theorists after 2012, seeping into universities and creating increasingly more autistic arguments.
I miss Circuit City. I miss CompUSA. I miss shit like Gateway and their cow-spotted mouse pads that would dry rot after a year. I miss some of the games of that time. I miss going to barren industrial parks near the desert to pick out tile for a kitchen, that are now built-up with lefty shit. I miss the little things of that decade, but overall, it wasn't particularly great, considering what it led to.
Maybe the most defining thing of that time is how fucked things got afterwards. I'm very very very very excited for what's to come, though.
David Fisher
I'm sure the 1920's beats in, even in term of degeneracy.