Current Events > Millennials love the 90s but hate Boomers

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The 90s was so great/memorable thanks mostly to the work and ideas of Boomers.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

liherals

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Any time someone mentions something fond from the 90s it's some kids cartoon or toy or candy.

Nobody talks about how they fondly remember Desert Storm, or Hurricane Andrew, or the Rodney King race riots
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Any time someone mentions something fond from the 90s it's some kids cartoon or toy or candy.

Nobody talks about how they fondly remember Desert Storm, or Hurricane Andrew, or the Rodney King race riits

What's the point of this post?
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The 90's was only remembered fondly because the threat of nuclear war was finally over
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Yeah Im nostalgic for the 90s because I was a fuckin kid with no responsibility. I didnt know anything about how good or shitty the world was then.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

What's the point of this post?

Anyone who actually likes "the 90s" was a child and was not subjected to how fucking awful it was because they were insulated by defanged TV and video games.
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MakoReizei posted...

The 90's was only remembered fondly because the threat of nuclear war was finally over

that sweet decade between the end of the cold war and the beginning of the war on terror...
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"how fucking awful it was"

You must think the 20th century was one of the worst times in human history. Two world wars, the great depression, the Holocaust, Communism, the radicalization of the Middle East, etc.

The great parts overtake the bad parts by far.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

"how fucking awful it was"

You must think the 20th century was one of the worst times in human history. Two world wars, the great depression, the Holocaust, Communism, the radicalization of the Middle East, etc.

The great parts overtake the bad parts by far.

I mean it was awful, but actually the farther back you go in history things get worse. Even with the Holocaust and other terrible things, the 19th century was still more bloody and violent than the 20th.

This is a trend that goes back for a really long time. We are becoming more peaceful as a species, even with events like the Holocaust.
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If you are just a negative person and in your mind let a few bad things overtake all the good things, I can't really change that.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Damn_Underscore posted...

"how fucking awful it was"

You must think the 20th century was one of the worst times in human history. Two world wars, the great depression, the Holocaust, Communism, the radicalization of the Middle East, etc.

The great parts overtake the bad parts by far.

I mean it was awful, but actually the farther back you go in history things get worse. Even with the Holocaust and other terrible things, the 19th century was still more bloody and violent than the 20th.

This is a trend that goes back for a really long time. We are becoming more peaceful as a species, even with events like the Holocaust.

You the kinda person who could win an all-expenses paid trip to Akihabara with ten grand in spending money and come back complaining about how you stubbed your toe while you were there
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Even with the Holocaust and other terrible things, the 19th century was still more bloody and violent than the 20th.

Pretty sure the 20th was bloodier due to WWI and II alone
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the only good thing in the 90s from boomers was the grateful dead tours in 1990-91
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like half of the Grateful Dead is arguably silent generation
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Millennials weren't even in high school during the 90s.
I mean I remember the 80s when I was little but I'm not nostalgic for it. It's just like "Hey! I remember that as a kid." And then move on with life.
You don't live and breath a particular time so to speak until you're like middle school through high school years. That's when you're into the music and style of the time. It's not you simply remembering it but remembering it sitting with my friends watching that, hot boxing my friend's truck listening to that new Offspring cd after driving out to buy it new at the nearest CD store 20 miles away. Trading around that mag of Pamela Anderson nudes. Sitting in class watching the O.J. verdict read, etc. You have more than passing memories associated with cultural touchstones. That's the 90s.
And in all those cases, Millennials don't have that.

Every article always talks up how Millennials grew up with the internet and the digital world, etc. Ok. Then Millennials aren't anyone born before 1986 at earliest by your own categorization. Because none of us had that. Yet they say that generation starts as early as '83-'82. Bullshit!
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EternalDivide posted...

Millennials weren't even in high school during the 90s.
I mean I remember the 80s when I was little but I'm not nostalgic for it. It's just like "Hey! I remember that as a kid." And then move on with life.
You don't live and breath a particular time so to speak until you're like middle school through high school years. That's when you're into the music and style of the time. It's not you simply remembering it but remembering it sitting with my friends watching that, hot boxing my friend's truck listening to that new Offspring cd after driving out to buy it new at the nearest CD store 20 miles away. Trading around that mag of Pamela Anderson nudes. Sitting in class watching the O.J. verdict read, etc. You have more than passing memories associated with cultural touchstones. That's the 90s.
And in all those cases, Millennials don't have that.

Every article always talks up how Millennials grew up with the internet and the digital world, etc. Ok. Then Millennials aren't anyone born before 1986 at earliest by your own categorization. Because none of us had that. Yet they say that generation starts as early as '83-'82. Bullshit!

To be fair, your generation was in their twenties when the internet started hitting hard. Youre probably the ones that influenced it the most. These days it just high school kids making memes
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TC is a millennial
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Anyone who actually likes "the 90s" was a child and was not subjected to how fucking awful it was because they were insulated by defanged TV and video games.

depends when in the 90s

the economy did great for working class folks in the mid to late 90s; its the only time that wages have increased in real terms after accounting for inflation since the 1960s

crime rates also plummeted in that same timeframe

the late 80s and early 90s were plagued by social and economic problems, which is why HW lost re-election

Obviously its always a mixed bag but yeah
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Yeah. When my high school library got the internet on a single computer it was a big thing. That was junior year. '98-'99. You could sign up to use it to research material from a handful of okayed sites. The internet wasn't trusted or well understood by even us teens at that point much less the adults.
No internet, no cell phones, quintuple copied VHS and magazine porn, using landlines to call friends, etc.
Uh-huh my age group sure are Millennials. *sarcasm*
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