MasileinDE wrote:
like how people are so into the 50s us thing and americana (or were a lot during the 2010s) and you're just like ... I mean the economic boom was great, but also ... that's about it????? lik we remember the past purely in aesthetics and that does limit our criticality towards it - especially if we didn't live during that time and don't know what it genuinely was like
ouch wrote:
to be fair, on overromantisation of past decades has also always been an issueMasileinDE wrote:
This just reminded me, very unrelated, but youtuber talked abt how it was being a teen in general but esp mentally ill in the 90s, and she said it was so horrible cus ur so alone, u can like watch tv or read books or whatever n thats it right, while many young ppl now r like uwuw 90s wow what a great time, no smartphones to get distracted by etc. no spartphones is right, but I think it would just be extra horrible for a lot of ppldevilcake wrote:
oh yeah dont get me wrong everyones doing it its just that the younger gen z's are like the perfect combo of young enough to online shop + not old enough + growing up with social media and being hyper focused on image + idividuality. And then the y2k stuff on top of that is partially all about maximalism and in turn consumerism so.
also growing up with a different perception of wealth and poverty due to the differeing levels of accessibility for many things compared to the older generations (most notably boomers and gen x)oh yeah dont get me wrong everyones doing it its just that the younger gen z's are like the perfect combo of young enough to online shop + not old enough + growing up with social media and being hyper focused on image + idividuality. And then the y2k stuff on top of that is partially all about maximalism and in turn consumerism so.
like how people are so into the 50s us thing and americana (or were a lot during the 2010s) and you're just like ... I mean the economic boom was great, but also ... that's about it????? lik we remember the past purely in aesthetics and that does limit our criticality towards it - especially if we didn't live during that time and don't know what it genuinely was like