00's? Oughties? "When Shoulderpads Came back"?

[scoia]

Something I had been thinking about lately, spurred on by this article: dailymiltonian.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/a-decade-so-bad-it-didnt-even-have-a-name-and-no-one-even-knows-its-ending/

I remember having a pervading sense of nostlagia in the nineties. Not for a specific time or place, but to live in a specific time or place- sometime, somewhere

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[neonfaerie]

Nor me.

Sigh.

A big fat zero does indeed sum up this decade for me pretty darn accurately.

I think you and me both were seriously gipped at having to miss the roaring twenties. I mean, yeah, great depression and all that, but we sure would have made fantastic flappers and can roar with the best of them, given enough hooch.

[scoia]

The best cocktails and you only needed to smoke a cigarette while wearing trousers to elicit outrage in "the ranks".

You're dead on, we missed out.

[absurd]

Culture itself is getting more schizophrenic as mainstream creation moves to suit fads that people have a shorter attention span for. A symptom of our digital era, perhaps, along with the slow erosion of values like solidarity and purpose and the elevation of irony in their stead.

Schizophrenic isn't bad in this case, and some of the decade's cultural production has been absolutely fantastic. It's just that there's a lack of aesthetic consistency to ground any pronouncement of "this decade was X."

[guerillamagilla]

like any decade you live through you pick up lots of things that you like along the way without taking much notice - I don't think it makes an impact till it traverses the squidgy parts of the brain and lodges itself in the 'long term memory' section that you actually become aware of all the things you liked during a time period.

I think I'm appreciating a lot more stuff from the present than I ever have at any other time of my life.

[she_breathes]

I can't think of anything I've REALLY liked since grunge. But I was 17 then too. I'm pretty sure at that age your brain releases some kind of superglue that makes whatever is popular stick, and anything after that is automatically dismissed as shite. Maybe it's called target marketing. Maybe it only works on the narrow and feeble minded. Yet I listen to music from the 60's, 70's and 80's more than anything released in the last decade (not that there isn't anything I've liked, just not... as much) so there is some kind of backwards compatibility being deployed there as well. The trouble with kids these days is they haven't been fed any fads of their own, all the gimps from the previous generation doing the marketing are too lazy rehashing stuff that's already happened. DIY, you wot? Anyway, the noughties, whatever you want to call them, there's sod all will be missed in this camp.

[scoia]

Tha lack of diy really alarms me. There's nothing you can't buy cheaply, immediately. Or download.

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[anonymous]

Hello