Current Events > Anyone wish they could go back to the early 2000s

(+) Yeah! (+)

• Your phone was a tool for communication and not a life stealing device
• You were probably in your early 20s and still figured were gonna make it big with 0 effort
• You and everyone you know had their own lives to live rather than living whatever-the-opposite-of-cathartically-is through the misery of others by being terminally online
• It was possible for a movie like American Pie to be made and that was considered funny
• Politics wasn't something you had any interest in
• Bush was the measure of an immeasurably embarrassing politician
• You had a more innocent perspective on media, like you never even thought about whether a silly superhero movie had to cater to specific social causes
• No one ever challenged you on the above thought even if they were right to do so
• Lord of the Rings

It was possible for a movie like American Pie to be made and that was considered funny

• People were still very much fixated on cell phones and other gadgets and cable television was very much "life stealing" for a lot of people
• I was in my middle school years being incessantly bullied and belittled at home and in school
• People were still very much all about trying to emulate people/things they weren't and not being an individual
• Less than a year ago they released a movie literally about a thirtysomething Jennifer Lawrence being paid to seduce a 19 year old boy who behaved like an awkward middle school student
• Post-9/11 paranoia and the 24-hour news cycle was still very much a thing and people on both sides were vocal about a number of topics
• Nobody gave a fuck because there was a lot more creative diversity in media and tons of different ideas being tried out as opposed to superhero movies, biopics and media adaptations
• There's like a billion different fleshed-out fantasy franchises today

* People were still very much fixated on cell phones and other gadgets and cable television was very much "life stealing" for a lot of people

* I was in my middle school years being incessantly bullied and belittled at home and in school.

* People were still very much all about trying to emulate people/things they weren't and not being an individual

* Less than a year ago they released a movie literally about a thirtysomething Jennifer Lawrence being paid to seduce a 19 year old boy who behaved like an awkward middle school student.

* Post-9/11 paranoia and the 24-hour news cycle was still very much a thing and people on both sides were vocal about a number of topics.

* Nobody gave a fuck because there was a lot more creative diversity in media and tons of different ideas being tried out as opposed to superhero movies, biopics and media adaptations.

* There's like a billion different fleshed-out fantasy franchises today

The saying goes that a millennial's favorite period is the time between the turn of the century and 9/11.

- 9/11 and all the fears surrounding that

- Anthrax attacks, the DC Sniper, etc

- The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

- Hurricane Katrina