Comment on It's been downhill since 2020
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Its actually that between 1991 and 2001 that we merely had a full decade of relative stability in world events. Crazy shit stopped happening for a while and we have collectively imparted that things used to be “normal” on people born after 2001 but they’ve interpreted their own childhoods as the normal years.
gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I see this said about the 90s all the time but really this is not true. In the 90s there was (not an exhaustive list)
It’s very common when asking any person what was the best period of time for the world for their response to be a period of time their formative years were.
The reality is history is full of horrid horrid things and nostalgia is a follie that’ll trick your mind.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yes, stuff still happened, but it was all mostly local scale in consequences or temporary blips. Conflicts, economic downturns, weather events can all be huge tragedies, but an entire super power cratered in on itself in '91 and splintered into smaller countries massively rewriting the political landscape. And in 2001, 9-11 happened and its arguably a starting point for a domino effect of terrible unhinged shit that followed that also had massive global political ramifications, arguably to this very day.
Lemmisaur@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
What about the African Great War that started in 1997?
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 week ago
Yep, preach.
hark@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, it’s less “stability in world events” and more so the west riding high off winning the cold war.