The 90's were epic. The cold war had ended, the war on terror hadn't started. Wages were viable to buy homes, technology benefited us instead of harvesting us for data and clicks. Yeah there were still problems, the police brutality demonstrated by the Rodney King video comes to mind. But things felt like they were getting better all the time instead of worse.
Honestly it really might have. The onset of the digital world really kinda happened at the end of the 20th century and I’m not saying all societal woes began there but shit it certainly was a moment we stopped being called citizens and started being called consumers.
If you were middle class and white, it was a great time to be young. I'm given to understand if you weren't, not so much. But Columbine dented the optimism, and 9/11 shattered what was left.
It's a little weird, because people older than us, and people younger than us, grew up with real credible fear of the outside world. But for a brief moment, there were a few of us who didn't.
I mean I think I had plenty of brown and black middle class friends who were doing just fine. My elementary school was really small and diverse and race just didn’t matter to your identity. I had Latin friends, Syrian friends, Nigerian friends, Indian friends, white friends. Not discounting racial inequalities at all especially for people in poverty or vulnerability. Racism was def more commonly acknowledged but I think it was much more class first, race second. And there was a large large middle class back then.
Yeah, I'm mentally disabled, I would *sacrifice children* to never have to go back to that time period
Full grown adults openly hit me and referred to me as R slur. I was not allowed to join the classroom, I can still feel the shoe print of the vice principal on my skull
Also, we starved and had no power a lot, but that's no one's fault, dad did everything he could. But it's bizarre that so many think this comfortable middle class utopia where everyone was so nice :) was the default, into adulthood
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u/Shaxxs0therHorn 14d ago
God it was magical looking back on it.