> 1990s 1989-2000 was objectively peak pax americana. the good guys won the cold war and were reaping the benefit of the peace dividend. it was a time of absolutely unprecedented prosperity and technological development. historians back then literally called it the "end of history" because they thought from then on, everyone would just live together in liberal democratic capitalistic 1st world order and never have any more wars or bad shit like that ever again.  > 2000s and early 2010s things were already starting to get bad by this point. the dotcom bubble popped in early 2000. then there was the contentious 2000 election that started the democrats insanity and whining about how gwb "stole" it and politics has been shit ever since. then, of course, 9/11 and the rise of the mass surveillance state and loss of rights and homeland security and tsa. facebook started spreading on college campuses in 2005, and it was cool at first. then they started letting the general public get accounts and it all went to shit and social media has been a shitshow ever since. then the iphone was released in 2007 and allowed all of the idiots and midwits and morons and niggers to shit up the internet with their terrible opinions.  > life feels vivid and colourful you were a kid back then and just nostalgic because at the time you didn't see or pay attention to most of the shitty, depressing stuff > all the colour and soul has drained out of the world welcome to adulthood.
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