• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    That’s a fascinating question. I just can’t wrap my head around the early 2000s as a time of Excellence. I think of it as a time of impending collapse. You have 9/11, the start of decades long horrific Wars, growing Mass government surveillance and authoritarianism, extreme political fracturing, ramping up to a massive financial disaster, and so much more. Now that’s true of every time every time has massive flaws and Horrors in them, but that’s one I just can’t really wrap my head around thinking anything else of.

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      9 months ago

      The 90s were prettygood. It kinda all started downhill with the Brooks Brothers Riot and SCOTUS calling a presidential election instead of the votes.