Do we agree this last decade was fucked?

[HEyHEY]

As a person born in the 70s there was a lot of things that I wish I'd seen. I missed WW2, Kennedy Assasination, Quebec terrorism (as a Canadian) and the 60s in general. All this just cause the insanity of it all is overwhelming when you tink about it.

But, this last decade, despite the terrible things it brought, we saw some things. Most of them were horrible. But, I hope being here and being of an age where I could understand the impact does something for the wisdom I will die with. I hope, somehow, I can help it get better.

I hope you're all well.

[Kennah]

1. I think it's worse than that

I was born in '67 so we may have similar perspectives.

Ever since Reagan, on many levels, I think here in the U.S. things have been fucked. Had Carter won re-election, there was a chance. Distant perhaps, but a chance nonetheless.

[LWolf]

5. +1

[Warpy]

2. Aw, you really don't wish you'd seen all the bad stuff.

What you need to regret missing was the party in the late 60s. It was a blast and people who are old enough to have seen it from the outside looking in but too young or too old to have experienced it have a major grudge against those of us who did.

The last decade was a horror show but most people out there missed the point since they had unlimited access to credit and could experience an affluent lifestyle on credit. To them, the last decade was one of abundance even though they were selling their financial futures for it.

Expect to see nostalgia for that miserable decade in the future.

[HEyHEY]

3. I guess, but just as someone interested in human behavious, it would have been interesting

Good call on the reflection though.

[AlphaCentauri]

4. It's just that every social and technical aspect are moving forward while politics

still acting as if we were in 1945

[toddwv]

7. I don't know about that.

There seems to be a slew of regressives who are seeking to move social aspects way back to "the good old days".

[immoderate]

8. The results were better in 1945

1945-1980 was a golden age in our society. Our politics took a fatal blow in 1980. Every election since has brought us closer to fascism.

--imm

[HughBeaumont]

6. 00s = bile-flavored icing on the Reaganomics shitcake.

Yet, the "Me First and the Gimme Gimme" 'murkins keep eating this dessert up as if their lives depended on it.

[Pyrzqxgl]

9. Buggered without permission I'd say.

[Lisa0825]

10. Christopher Titus described it well... He said....

"The past 10 years have blown! First we partied like it was 1999, and then the next 10 years have been like one big hangover."

[damntexdem]

11. Yeah, as were the 80s.

Hmm, now there must be some connection there. ;-)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. We've had worse decades but possibly never for worse reasons.