Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2000s?

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

But how? Every avenue we have is peanuts compared to what the ones ruining society have, where do we even begin?

Piracy. Being able to maintain the old media is how we start. For it reminds us of how people in the past thought.

For example, I've started watching the original Battlestar Galactica after watching the Remake and I actually like it better. It's corny AF, yes, but at its core, it's a Biblical story set in space. Terrible things happened to them and the politicians in them are rent-seeking cowards, but it's simple in its execution and our heroes aren't assholes. In the Remake, EVERYONE is an asshole and an emotional wreck at the beginning of the show. Scripture and faith can't be real. Everyone has to become more depressed and any attempts to understand religious concepts are muddled in atheist edgelord writing, which makes its themes incomprehensible and contradictory at times.

Why do I bring it up? Because the original show was written by someone who truly believed in the ethos of the mythos he was drawing upon. Character morality in old shows was definitely more deontological and universal. So much so that it was taken for granted, which is how the rot started. At the risk of sounding smug, dumber people (especially New Atheists) couldn't grasp the subtext of why old morality did better and mindlessly railed at it for decades until all that was left was the strawman. Truth gave way to perspective.

 

[TitusOvid]

I miss the 90s. This new millenium has been a disaster.

 

[Billy Beer]

Piracy. Being able to maintain the old media is how we start. For it reminds us of how people in the past thought.

For example, I've started watching the original Battlestar Galactica after watching the Remake and I actually like it better. It's corny AF, yes, but at its core, it's a Biblical story set in space. Terrible things happened to them and the politicians in them are rent-seeking cowards, but it's simple in its execution and our heroes aren't assholes. In the Remake, EVERYONE is an asshole and an emotional wreck at the beginning of the show. Scripture and faith can't be real. Everyone has to become more depressed and any attempts to understand religious concepts are muddled in atheist edgelord writing, which makes its themes incomprehensible and contradictory at times.

Why do I bring it up? Because the original show was written by someone who truly believed in the ethos of the mythos he was drawing upon. Character morality in old shows was definitely more deontological and universal. So much so that it was taken for granted, which is how the rot started. At the risk of sounding smug, dumber people (especially New Atheists) couldn't grasp the subtext of why old morality did better and mindlessly railed at it for decades until all that was left was the strawman. Truth gave way to perspective.

This guy gets it.


I've just started watching 'Wings' which is an American sitcom running from 1990 - 1997. The old school humour and lads club jokes of fawning over attractive women is lost on today's world. The jokes are cheesy, corny and cliche but they're so innocent that they get a hearty chuckle from me.

I can't think of anything that's made me laugh in modern media. Hell, even Bob Mortimer Mortimerian tales on 'Would I lie to you' are from a comedian of yesteryesr

 

[VIPPER?]

I was a kid at the time, but I do have a lot of career-type regrets. If I could do it all again, I'd have definitely schmoozed more and schmoozed differently.

 

[HERO_V]

I was a kid at the time, but I do have a lot of career-type regrets. If I could do it all again, I'd have definitely schmoozed more and schmoozed differently.

It's cliché to say, but it's true that if we had the experience and capabilities that we have now back when we were in high school, most of us would be in a better place. Having a strong family support system is crucial for adolescent success.

 

[VIPPER?]

It's cliché to say, but it's true that if we had the experience and capabilities that we have now back when we were in high school, most of us would be in a better place. Having a strong family support system is crucial for adolescent success.

oh no, I mean that I wish I had leaned hard into being an animu weeb piece of shit while the going was good instead of trying to be a normie. People I ran with on IRC with back in the day now make ten times as much as I do to draw pokemon fucking while I'm out here lamenting

 

[Mnutu]

Perhaps a bit too personal and overall pathetic, but the only way I an get myself to fall asleep now is to imagine if I had a second chance in life. Been that way for months now. That’s the only reason anyone feels nostalgic, it’s to imagine what you could have done instead of what you are.

 

[Madre Muerte]

I'm more of a neolithic era guy myself

 

[mario if smoke weed]

I miss being a kid and not knowing what Lemonparty was.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

what might be going on in the 2020s to make you miss the 2010s?

I already miss the 2010s because there was no "New Normal".

And the 2010s sucked eel eggs.

I fully expect an economic bed-shitting followed by consistent street violence and everywhere just becomes super-Compton.

It could've been nice if things weren't heading that way.

 

[185405]

Of course I miss my college student days. I had so much energy back then was capable of working and studying and partying sleeping only like 3 hours sometimes no sleep...Nowadays I just cannot stay up for mmorethan 15 hours straight

 

[Odnovo]

Of course I miss my college student days. I had so much energy back then was capable of working and studying and partying sleeping only like 3 hours sometimes no sleep...Nowadays I just cannot stay up for mmorethan 15 hours straight

Not to mention that you didn't have to worry about some professor attempting to literally ruin your life over an innocuous comment, at least in most places back then.

 

[Bass]

Perhaps a bit too personal and overall pathetic, but the only way I an get myself to fall asleep now is to imagine if I had a second chance in life. Been that way for months now. That’s the only reason anyone feels nostalgic, it’s to imagine what you could have done instead of what you are.

Real talk: you are regretting the past because you're morning a future that cannot happen, and the reason it can't happen is when you ruminate on the past like that you're imagining a past where you played it all perfectly and didn't make any mistakes. Guess what? You are human and humans make mistakes. There's no way you could have been perfect. Looking back and learning from the mistakes? Sure, that's the healthy thing to do, but beating yourself up over it? No. Going through life regretting something that cannot be is no way to go through life.

Get therapy, or help and do what you gotta to let that shit go. You'll be better off for it.

Remember the past is dead and your not up to the future yet so all you really have is now.

Good luck

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I believe I mentioned it before but it seems like we are only looking at our youth and nostalgia for it, but beyond that what else was good? If we returned back as adults and lived through it as adults would we still be nostalgic about it or be completely disconnected from it? An adults view is very different from a younger person’s perspective.

 

[Never Scored]

I believe I mentioned it before but it seems like we are only looking at our youth and nostalgia for it, but beyond that what else was good? If we returned back as adults and lived through it as adults would we still be nostalgic about it or be completely disconnected from it? An adults view is very different from a younger person’s perspective.

Yes and no. I was already 26, done university and had a full time job by 2010 and I still think 2010 was better than now. Politics didn't bleed into everything in the same way back then. There is definitely a woke political movement which we called SJWs at the time that sprung up around 2012 or 2013 that got super intense after Trump's election. I think it has its roots in the occupy movement.

 

[AnOminous]

Not to mention that you didn't have to worry about some professor attempting to literally ruin your life over an innocuous comment, at least in most places back then.

Nowadays it's the professors who get their lives ruined over innocuous comments.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I'm a bit younger than you, but I was still in high school when 9/11 happened. There was for sure a clear and dramatic shift in the following years.

If you read the archived SA thread on 9/11 you can see it happen almost in real time. There's a reason I read that thread each year.

Yes and no. I was already 26, done university and had a full time job by 2010 and I still think 2010 was better than now. Politics didn't bleed into everything in the same way back then. There is definitely a woke political movement which we called SJWs at the time that sprung up around 2012 or 2013 that got super intense after Trump's election. I think it has its roots in the occupy movement.

It 100% has roots in Occupy since SJW bullshit was made to smother that movement in the cradle. How else do you think Wall Street got away with as few lasting consequences as they did? Why else would most big corporations pay money with diversity staff and slobbering over sociopolitical movements? Fostering enemies amongst the American people allowed corporations to gain so much power it's downright sickening.

 

[White Girl]

I don't miss the 2000s. The clothes didn't fit me right, kept thinking I was fat, and EDs were rampant because only a certain body type could fit into "Y2K fashion" aka mcbling.

 

[Cool Dog]

I only miss the 2000s because while it was a shit time compared to the 90s it was also less shit than the 2010 let alone the 2020s which are already bound to be a shit decade unless you're rich enough to shield yourself from all the shit happening and about to happen

My country went to total shit in summer (your winter) 2001, only by 2005 things got any better but we never went back to the days before 2001. End of innocence? for my generation it was more like the new reality giving you a swift kick to the nuts with a steel-toed boot, and then came 2008-9 which ended whatever recovery we had and we been slowly but surely going down again ever since

If I miss anything is being in my teens and still believing I could do something with my life beside becoming another normalfag like everybody else

Real talk: you are regretting the past because you're morning a future that cannot happen, and the reason it can't happen is when you ruminate on the past like that you're imagining a past where you played it all perfectly and didn't make any mistakes. Guess what? You are human and humans make mistakes. There's no way you could have been perfect. Looking back and learning from the mistakes? Sure, that's the healthy thing to do, but beating yourself up over it? No. Going through life regretting something that cannot be is no way to go through life.

Get therapy, or help and do what you gotta to let that shit go. You'll be better off for it.

Remember the past is dead and your not up to the future yet so all you really have is now.

I agree with your first paragraph (right in the feels BTW) except I didnt learn much of the mistakes since shit went sideways outside my control you get me? sure I could've done things differently myself but given my position I could at best mitigated the damage but not avoid, not from where I was standing

As for therapy, well unless we're talking something like CBT then that wont give you the tools to dig yourself out of the hole you're in. Traditional psychoanalysis is not that great for that. Antidepressants do help but you need a psych that knows what they're doing and can medicate you appropriately, not just toss some pills at you like a regular doc does

And I gladly exchange whatever shit future that awaits me to relive my past, at least that wasnt as shit as today

 

[Bass]

I agree with your first paragraph (right in the feels BTW) except I didnt learn much of the mistakes since shit went sideways outside my control you get me? sure I could've done things differently myself but given my position I could at best mitigated the damage but not avoid, not from where I was standing

As for therapy, well unless we're talking something like CBT then that wont give you the tools to dig yourself out of the hole you're in. Traditional psychoanalysis is not that great for that. Antidepressants do help but you need a psych that knows what they're doing and can medicate you appropriately, not just toss some pills at you like a regular doc does

And I gladly exchange whatever shit future that wasn't as shit as today

I don't know the guys situation at all when I said therapy, bit anything is better than sitting around wallowing in what might have been. You know?

And I totally get you about when things happen that are out of your control, but that's almost worse to sit around regretting in a way. Then you're just hating yourself for shit you couldn't do anything about, and that's no good.

Just don't beat yourself up over it is all I'm saying.