Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2000s?

[Shield Breaker]

Sure, my parents would still be alive.

 

[Travis Touchdown Cumsock]

It truly was a better time. SJW cancer had not yet formulated, so the internet was actually a free land of the shitpostings, before they came.

However...being an americunt, one thing I do not miss from the 2000's were the gas prices.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

The Saturday morning kids wb lineup in the 2000s was awesome, I was always decompressing from a tough factory job and yugioh, xaolin showdown, all that shit was great.

 

[Dom Cruise]

So, thinking further about this subject I think what I'm really talking about is not just the "2000s" but what I like to call the "turn of the millennium" era which I would define as roughly being from 1997 to 2007.

And the more time goes on the more I unapologetically miss it, yeah a bad thing happened smack dab in the middle of it but it's important to remember that there was other stuff going on too, 9/11 shouldn't overshadow the early 2000s completely, that's giving more power to the bastards that did it than they deserve.

You have to remember that for as shocking as it was and as scared as people were, there was still a "can do" spirit among people that the patriotic thing to do was to not let it bring us down, there still just enough of that turn of the millennium optimism left to last another several years.

 

[CheezzyMach]

So, thinking further about this subject I think what I'm really talking about is not just the "2000s" but what I like to call the "turn of the millennium" era which I would define as roughly being from 1997 to 2007.

And the more time goes on the more I unapologetically miss it, yeah a bad thing happened smack dab in the middle of it but it's important to remember that there was other stuff going on too, 9/11 shouldn't overshadow the early 2000s completely, that's giving more power to the bastards that did it than they deserve.

You have to remember that for as shocking as it was and as scared as people were, there was still a "can do" spirit among people that the patriotic thing to do was to not let it bring us down, there still just enough of that turn of the millennium optimism left to last another several years.

The one two punch of the War on Terror being a failure and the Great Recession did a lot to damage that spirit.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The one two punch of the War on Terror being a failure and the Great Recession did a lot to damage that spirit.

I think a lot of people held out hope in the 2000s that things would go back to the way they were in the 90s and the Great Recession is what really knocked the wind out of America's sails.

Because as bad as it was 9/11 was still at least an attack on us by outsiders, but the Great Recession was something that happened within and it called into question everything about how modern society functions, a certain confidence was lost that has still not been regained.

 

[Spatula]

In 2029 you'll all be begging for the 2010s. Screencap this post.

To be honest, the early 2010's and late 2010's were really nice. The middle from 2014 to 2017 was the worst part of the decade, aka when the PC inquizition was at it's height and the peak of Trump derangement syndrome.
People were more scared about Trump being president than they are now about the coronavirus pandemic.

 

[Broseph]

Looking back, I think 2005 was probably one of the greatest years of my life.

Of course, I was twelve years old back then. So my view of that year may be skewed by childhood nostalgia.

That was honestly one of the worst fucking years of my life. That year started with my grandfather passing away and my POS uncle selling his house and screwing my family out of the money, and then the year ended with me getting cucked by some dumbass cunt that I met in Driver's Ed.

 

[Broseph]

Yeah dude. The GBA was a major platform for me, but it's crazy to think it was only current for three years. Released June 2001, obsolete November 2004 by the hand of the Nintendo DS. Even though the DS had fuck all on it until late '05.

The funny thing is, back when the DS was coming out Nintendo swore up and down that it wasn't replacing the GBA, but that it would be the "third pillar" along the GBA and GameCube, but then they changed their minds about that pretty fast after they saw how much more money the DS was making than the GBA. What a bunch of cucks.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

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The funny thing is, back when the DS was coming out Nintendo swore up and down that it wasn't replacing the GBA, but that it would be the "third pillar" along the GBA and GameCube, but then they changed their minds about that pretty fast after they saw how much more money the DS was making than the GBA. What a bunch of cucks.

The gba was basically a Snes, which remains one of the perfect consoles ever created. I still buy indie games that ape the 16 era.

 

[Syaoran Li]

That was honestly one of the worst fucking years of my life. That year started with my grandfather passing away and my POS uncle selling his house and screwing my family out of the money, and then the year ended with me getting cucked by some dumbass cunt that I met in Driver's Ed.

I'm sorry to hear that, but I can understand when a year is terrible for personal reasons.

For me, 2009 will always be one of the worst years of my life.

That was the year my grandmother committed suicide. Her and I were very close and got along quite well ever since I was a little kid, and her death hit home hard.

 

[Detrogen]

The early 2000’s (like 00-05) were interesting for me. I hadn’t yet met friends that I’ve known for over a decade now, and I no longer associate with the friends I had.

While I didn’t enjoy it at the time, I’ve gotten into a lot of the music and movies of the early 2000’s. There’s a cringy earnestness to just about everything.

 

[Syaoran Li]

So, thinking further about this subject I think what I'm really talking about is not just the "2000s" but what I like to call the "turn of the millennium" era which I would define as roughly being from 1997 to 2007.

And the more time goes on the more I unapologetically miss it, yeah a bad thing happened smack dab in the middle of it but it's important to remember that there was other stuff going on too, 9/11 shouldn't overshadow the early 2000s completely, that's giving more power to the bastards that did it than they deserve.

You have to remember that for as shocking as it was and as scared as people were, there was still a "can do" spirit among people that the patriotic thing to do was to not let it bring us down, there still just enough of that turn of the millennium optimism left to last another several years.

Agreed, although I'd say the "Turn of the Millennium" began in 1996 instead of 1997.

With 1996, you had the reelection of Bill Clinton and the start of the first major tech boom with the dot com bubble.

The PS1 and Windows 95 both came out the previous year and were gaining a lot of traction, and 1996 is also the year that the "grungy" 90's had largely started to fade out as well.

2007 is the perfect year to end the Turn of the Millennium on.

If anything, I'd wager that the last 20 years or so have been three distinct cultural eras.

You had the "Turn of the Millennium" that began around 1996-1997 and ended around 2007, and then came the "Recession Era" that lasted from around 2008-2013, and events in 2011-2013 give way to the age of "Current Year", which really began in earnest around 2014 and went into overdrive in 2017.

Personally, I think we're headed to yet another shift in the cultural zeitgeist, but I could be wrong

I don't know why, but call it a hunch.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

But something happened that caused the cultural shift and I'm not fully sure what that is.

I heard the endgame the elite have is to break society down into an atomized (hence identity politics and the isolation of modern life), smaller (hence depopulation agenda), cyberneticized (hence the oversaturation of technology like smartphones and upcoming brain-computer interfaces) slave class lorded over by them and AI. The theory goes that work towards this goal took off since WWII ended. Conspiracy theory or not, it sounds ominous -- and it can be quite difficult to think the modern world doesn't suck.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

The year 2000 had people think that the world was going to end.
The year 2010 had people believing that technology was going to change the world in a beneficial way.

Looking back at the 2000’s, I’d say the nostalgic effect is starting to wane because the 2020’s is making people think that others did not say bad things about the years that preceded the others.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I don't know why, but call it a hunch.

I hope Current Year ends and evolves into something better, instead of being endless or morphing into something worse.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I hope Current Year ends and evolves into something better, instead of being endless or morphing into something worse.

I know this sounds optimistic and I'll get a lot of rainbows for saying this, but I think it will end and get better...for a while. Then the pendulum will inevitably swing too far the other direction and it will get shitty again, but for a different reason and cause yet another backlash.

Rinse and Repeat.

American culture is practically built on the pendulum effect moreso than any other Western nation and while these tendencies became more visibly pronounced, intensified and overall more well documented in the post-WWII era, that pendulum effect was always there from the start, going all the way back to the era of the Founding Fathers.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Every damn day.

I miss when one wasn't automatically labeled a white nationalist white supremacist alt-right far-right misogynist for wrongthink.

Mid 90s was better than the 2000s but the 2000s was better than now.

If this trend never ends and the pendulum effect @Syaoran Li mentioned breaks, the 2030s are going to be worse, the 2040s even worse than the 2030s, and so on. A slippery slide ride into hell.

Hopefully that's just unrealistic doomer thinking though.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I miss when one wasn't automatically labeled a white nationalist white supremacist alt-right far-right misogynist for wrongthink.


If this trend never ends and the pendulum effect @Syaoran Li mentioned breaks, the 2030s are going to be worse, the 2040s even worse than the 2030s, and so on. A slippery slide ride into hell.

Hopefully that's just unrealistic doomer thinking though.

Honestly, it is unrealistic doomer thought, but I can understand the sentiment and for a while, I felt it myself. It wasn't until the second half of 2019 that I truly considered the possibility of the "Current Year" mentality coming to an end. 2019 was probably the first year that was every bit as bad for the SJW's as it was for everyone else and the Left had a lot of blunders that are now continuing into 2020.

We're barely at the first spring of the 2020's and I'd say 2020 will likely be remembered as more of a holdover of the 2010's cultural zeitgeist, sort of like how 2000 and most of 2001 was pretty much the same as the 1990's, with 9/11 serving as the start of what most people would consider to be the culture of the 2000's.

We even see that with the 90's not really kicking off until 1992 or 1993 with the end of the Cold War, the rise of Grunge and the election of Bill Clinton, or how the culture of the 1950's didn't truly end until 1963 brought us the British Invasion, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the subsequent escalation in Vietnam.

Honestly, I think we'll see the 2020's cultural zeitgeist be a backlash at the moralizing and woke malaise that dominated the 2010's. Depending on how the 2020 Election and this Corona-chan bullshit ultimately pan out, I could see the 2020's being a quintessential "feel good" decade of American history like the 1920's, the 1950's, and the 1980's and 1990's.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I could see the 2020's being a quintessential "feel good" decade of American history like the 1920's, the 1950's, and the 1980's and 1990's.

Do you see any signs of that or a backlash against wokethink now?