As someone born in the early 80’s, just for once I’d like a nice, boring decade. Pretty please.
Saw the fall of communism, the Balkan wars, 9/11, the rise and fall of the internet, the dotcom bust, the 2008 financial crisis, Arab Spring, Brexit, global pandemic, war in Europe again, US politics, middle-east still fucked as usual. And then there’s climate change to fuck over everything in general.
So yeah, I’d love a decade where nothing happens. Heck, I’ll take a boring six months at this point. Gimme a fucking break.
Well yeah you could also go like that backwards in time. Iran kidnap crisis, OPEP, cold war, hot wars ( proxy and ww i, ii) and so on and so on.
At least 1st world was steadily growing and improving since 1945, almost uninterrupted (yep, crisis in 1st world are amateur levels). If you were NOT born in 1st world you have to add corruption levels you can’t imagine, economy rollercoaster that makes 10% inflation look like an utopia, and CIA destabilizing your country every single time it starts catching up.
“The Fall of X” does not imply a past event. You can live during the fall of something quite easily. Such a us currently living through the fall of the American hegemony.
There’s more people on the internet than ever but they are mostly all on one central part of it being manipulated by ads and algorithms designed to drain them of money and data.
As someone born in the early 80’s, just for once I’d like a nice, boring decade. Pretty please.
Saw the fall of communism, the Balkan wars, 9/11, the rise and fall of the internet, the dotcom bust, the 2008 financial crisis, Arab Spring, Brexit, global pandemic, war in Europe again, US politics, middle-east still fucked as usual. And then there’s climate change to fuck over everything in general.
So yeah, I’d love a decade where nothing happens. Heck, I’ll take a boring six months at this point. Gimme a fucking break.
Every generation could have a “We didn’t start the fire song.”. It is just politics and the human race on repeat, until it can’t or won’t.
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning.
Well yeah you could also go like that backwards in time. Iran kidnap crisis, OPEP, cold war, hot wars ( proxy and ww i, ii) and so on and so on.
At least 1st world was steadily growing and improving since 1945, almost uninterrupted (yep, crisis in 1st world are amateur levels). If you were NOT born in 1st world you have to add corruption levels you can’t imagine, economy rollercoaster that makes 10% inflation look like an utopia, and CIA destabilizing your country every single time it starts catching up.
Fall of the internet? The interet does not appear fallen to me
It’s hard to see it falling when you’re falling right along with it.
But that is falling as it if its a process thats happening right now, not as something that has already happend
“The Fall of X” does not imply a past event. You can live during the fall of something quite easily. Such a us currently living through the fall of the American hegemony.
If your read closely he says he “saw the fall of the internet”. Saw…
There’s more people on the internet than ever but they are mostly all on one central part of it being manipulated by ads and algorithms designed to drain them of money and data.