@c0ll3ct0r You’re playing my jam, man. I’m picking up what you’re laying down. I’m digging your layer of strata-varian existential melody. I was just talking about this with a few friends the other day. One old. One new. People of like minds are out there, and it’s up to us to help others see (and often rediscover) the value of looking at things in this reflective and critical, but constructive way. God I hope more people are able to come to this place.
@kamon I’m getting into cybersecurity, and I often wonder, were I in control of the internet, Would I rather just turn it off?
@jabby. Yes. Mindset is a big part of the question. Many people I feel base the answer to this question purely off of that. “How did I feel in this time?” 90s NYC always brings back great feels with the fam as a kid. Thanks for sharing. (except for the haircuts and hats.
I’ve been talking to girl friends about dating stuff. Their issues. My issues. One thing I’ve been told repeatedly is that they’re tired of getting hit on by the loudest, most obnoxious guy in the room. Like the loudest and often biggest jerks/blowhards are the ones who are always putting themselves in front of them, and I feel like the internet is this same way. Instead of dating a girl however, their aim is to get attention.
Any kind of attention is fine, and it may be the only they ever get, but there are enough of them that they are constantly bombarding us with their crap. Other people have no street smarts, and can’t tell a Con Artist when they see one, so they follow along, but not in a malicious way. Still, this all makes the internet and everything that revolves around it omni-present and depressing. Perhaps, as in real life, the best way to deal with it is to staunchly punish it, when it because abusive, but to simply ignore it otherwise.
This is actually such a great exercise to do, specially to be in line with mother nature. Really helps when the winters are cold and the blankets are warm
I treat and evaluate 60+ children every day. Kids today still do a lot of what I used to do as a 90’s kid, play video games, collect cards, goof off, play outside, have fun and love pizza, ice cream, and candy.
Boys like marvel/pokemon/minecraft/fortnite/amongus/sports and girls like princesses/pink/gymnastics/softball/squishmallows/decorating etc. (que the woke peeps) I think many things are similar but kids just playing in the streets is not as common. Social media and the fear of peoples children being harmed lends to more children staying inside per their parents.
I grew up in the 90’s. Looking back, it was one of the best times to grow up as a kid. Obviously I am biased though. I was a latchkey kid, I would get home and have 5+ hours before my parents came home from work. I would ride my bike miles and miles without a care in the world. I would explore random neighborhoods and sometimes… peoples backyards. lol I used to skim board on the local golf course greens and needed a pay phone to call my mom to let her know where I was. We would drink out of the hose and playing video games was something done after it got too late to play outside. Outside playing always trumped inside playing video games. Interestingly enough there are still a lot of kids who live this type of life! Surprisingly, some parents don’t let their children go on phones or have video games. Home schooling has become much more popular since 2020.
Overall, I think most things are similar with regards to technology advances. I grew up with video games, my dad grew up listening to the radio and if you could hear him describe how special it was when his family first got a radio and he listened to it, the equivalent would be getting a brand new N64 on release day for me when I was a child. Similar experiences but 45 years apart.
the world was even bleaker in the 30s & 40s. the kids will be fine. humans are pretty capable of adapting, and those that don’t will pass on anyways. everything seems scarier in the present, but eventually will be forgotten as bygones. covid might live to be a paragraph in 1 chapter of history, and it will be glossed over anyways. emerging technology will be integrated - for better or worse, and we just have to accept it and keep moving forward. i’d still choose to live in 2020 over 1920 anyday, and the kids from 2120 would most likely say the same (except for those counter culture kids who will still inevitably exist).
This is what sticks out to me the most. People look back on their childhoods with fond memories of a simpler time. Of course they were simpler, you were a kid. But I do think social media created a big shift in the dynamic of how humans are wired and interact with each other. Hell I’m not talking just about growing up in the 90’s, look back to even six, seven years ago. Social media created such a shift even the early 2010’s were simpler times. Folks are in a bad mood and on edge constantly because they’re just spent the last two hours arguing with people on the internet or being bombarded with negativity.
There were chat rooms and aim in the late 90s-00s and it just wasn’t toxic like the internet today. I’m not even being nostalgic, there is a difference in how people interact on the internet today.
100%. Not saying negativity didn’t exist on the internet, but people were just hanging out in chat rooms goofing around and having fun. Even the early days of Facebook for that matter. Facebook was just starting to become a thing when I was in high school and it was used primarily for coordinating hangouts and sharing grainy pictures with too much flash
Nostalgia can be mysterious. I’m somehow nostalgic for a terrible job I had a few years ago, already nostalgic for the early days of the pandemic playing Animal Crossing New Horizons, hell I even feel nostalgic when mowing my parents yard (something I dreaded as a teenager). It’s heavily dependent on personal experience and perspective. What once was a terrible time can seem like a simpler time when put in perspective, especially since as we grow up our responsibilities and stressors tend to increase.
Haha in all seriousness the big difference I see is people weren’t chronically online. The percentage alone of people online is dramatically greater today.
The internet and technology as a whole was a curiosity in the 90s. Perhaps because it was slower it made it more purposeful. Where now people of all ages spend so much time online. It creates different dynamics and a lifestyle that just wasn’t possible back then.
Hey i dont want logic I just want to talk smack about 2020.
For real though, i agree to a point. Im nostalgic of some places that in the moment i hated, but then theres other places with that same feeling that have zero nostalgia
I don’t have to indulge the content to answer YES. Although every generation tends to look back and say this - I’m thankful everyday I grew up in the 90’s as it was the last generation before life moved online in half and now seemingly most of existence.
I can’t express how grateful I am that I’ll have the memory of getting in a car and driving to blockbuster to pick out a clunky video. Physically picking them up to look at the back. The disappointment you felt when you were too late and all the copies of the one you were going to get were rented and instead you were left with a cut out of where the movie was. Or sleeping over my grandmas and going to toys r us to spend an hour picking out one thing. I remember the time I got Pokémon yellow for game boy.
Technology and 9/11 were I believe the two largest catalysts for the world we get today. It can feel sometimes like 9/11 was so long ago, but it really
wasn’t and it’s consequences are still felt deeply.
Not American but we’re in a great decade now and the next decade will be great. There’s never been a better to time to live and have access to the world at your fingertips. The question people should be asking is when did Americans and the American Dream become so miserable.
I wasn’t targeting anyone specific and obviously was just generalising about America greatly since it’s a huge place and a melting pot of cultures and people, but if I compare to out in Asia then I think in places like Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore etc then the idea of a dream still exists. The vast majority of people strive for a better future for themselves that is decided by themselves, and don’t look back so nostalgically on specific time frames of their lives. I live in Japan and people here also seem pessimistic and ambivalent about the future although I personally believe in Japan and think there is still a dream to be had.
