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I prefer to evaluate decades with the benefit of hindsight. Most of it is too recent. Granted, I'm thinking more about the arts, politics, and culture when I say that, whereas a bunch people in this topic seem to be focused on their lives. On a personal level, the decade has had a few low points and deaths -- many within the last few years -- so on the whole, it's been more negative than positive (or, at least, the negative events seem to stand out more than the positive ones).

I will say that the increasing mismanagement of CT -- where Ned Lamont replaced Dan Malloy and seems hellbent on fucking things up even more than he did, attacking industry and introducing new regressive taxes -- has given me serious thoughts about finally moving to a less-awful state.

This was the decade where I really zoned out on gaming, which I at least partly blame on Nintendo effectively exiting the handheld market when it decided to merge its home consoles and handhelds to create a system that does neither thing all that well.

This was the decade where I (kinda) got into music thanks to the genius of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. Granted, it's still more musicals than all other kinds and, besides Hamilton, I wasn't terribly impressed or intrigued by most of the new musicals coming out in this decade so I wound up enjoying older works.

Television has been pretty good. As always, quite a few shows I liked didn't last and streaming -- which initially had been a massive boon -- has become fragmented. Movies have been a mixed bag, although I absolutely loved Hobo with a Shotgun.

Yellow posted...

The internet has really helped the US's political situation, people don't have to rely solely on big news outlets anymore.

All things considered, I'm not sure how much that's actually *helped* the landscape given how much it's contributed to echo chambers and enabled the spread of fake news. Plus we've had much of it since the 00s anyway.

Yellow posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

This is what happens as you get older. Every decade seems faster than the last, time seems to speed by, and you occasionally realize that things that feel like they just happened yesterday actually happened like 8 years ago.

I have a hunch that this is due to people getting jobs, where they train themselves to make the day go by as fast as possible.

Maybe people just get too good at it.

A lot of it is probably some form of memory degradation, since events in our minds wind up getting compressed. Otherwise if you're constantly busy, you can lose track of time.

Plus even children try to make things they dislike go by faster.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

And in the same vein, it's why when you're a kid it can feel like waiting for something takes absolutely forever, but as an adult you feel like you never have enough time to do all the things you need/want to do.

And then you die.

You must be a blast at parties =p