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re: I was born in the 90’s, were the 80’s and 90’s truly the best time to be alive?
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:10 pm to fastlane
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:10 pm to fastlane
I had a pretty good time growing up in the '80s and then traveling the world in the Navy during the '90s. So I'm going to say yes, it was the best time to be alive. It was damn sure better when all the nonsense out there today didn't exist. I would also like to add two words: Miami Vice.
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Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:14 pm to fastlane
1980s were an amazing time. We were coming out of the Carter era's misery index time so optimism ran high. Hope ruled our psyches. Music was great and varied. Rap, emo and grunge had not killed the dominant music movements.
The 1990s we're still good but showing some signs of cultural erosion.
Then a community organizer reintroduced racial animosity to the forefront of all thinking and reignited this as a major consideration for all human interactions. A giant step backwards for our culture.
And the lunacy continues that sickening trend. Occupy this and antifa that. Gender confusion. Music is very poor. TV is also poor.
Glad to have enjoyed the 80s but also glad that I live now when whining to a wide audience is possible because Al Gore gave us the internet...
The 1990s we're still good but showing some signs of cultural erosion.
Then a community organizer reintroduced racial animosity to the forefront of all thinking and reignited this as a major consideration for all human interactions. A giant step backwards for our culture.
And the lunacy continues that sickening trend. Occupy this and antifa that. Gender confusion. Music is very poor. TV is also poor.
Glad to have enjoyed the 80s but also glad that I live now when whining to a wide audience is possible because Al Gore gave us the internet...
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:15 pm to La Place Mike
quote:Young American men getting shipped off to Vietnam was great? The Cuban missile crisis was great? Kennedy getting his head blown off was great?
He got down voted because the sixties were great.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:15 pm to HouseMom
Recently rewatched the entire series of NYPD Blue. That show personified the "freedom" and "acceptance" of the 90s. The things that show put on television from the plots to dialouge would not be acceptable today. It was eyeopening on rewatch with today's perspective to compare to. We've gone backwards in many, many ways. Even 9/11, the last example of the true American spirit, has divided us since. Maybe ignorance truly is blissful.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:16 pm to fastlane
best time is now
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:17 pm to fastlane
Any time above the sod is great.
I was born during WW2, very rural and we lived like people who were still in the depression.
In my years, I've seen some horrific events unfold but I've also seen some miraculous milestones
However, I'm still stuck in the 80s and 90s musically. Rap, Death Metal, and AC/DC still sucks. Prove me wrong.
I was born during WW2, very rural and we lived like people who were still in the depression.
In my years, I've seen some horrific events unfold but I've also seen some miraculous milestones
However, I'm still stuck in the 80s and 90s musically. Rap, Death Metal, and AC/DC still sucks. Prove me wrong.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:22 pm to TDFreak
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He got down voted because the sixties were great.
Young American men getting shipped off to Vietnam was great? The Cuban missile crisis was great? Kennedy getting his head blown off was great?
Two thousand years ago, Matt wrote this: 24;6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:26 pm to Kentucker
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The 1960s and 1970s were the best
Except of course for segregation, conscription, stagflation, and worst of all disco.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:26 pm to SallysHuman
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Yes… but I imagine everyone thinks their own growing up years were the best.
Nostalgia is pwerful.
The question the OP presented will be presented into the future for generations to come.
There are rare examples where the shoe doesn’t fit.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:47 pm to fastlane
spin back to 60s and 70s.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:54 pm to caro81
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Nostalgia is pwerful.
I grew up in to 60s-70s, my dad grew up in the Great Depression, there was a big retro/nostalgia movement going on in the early 70s, shoes/clothing styles, hair styles, music, movies, etc., overheard a friend of my dad asking him about his "good old days," he said "I'll never forget those days because it motivates me to never go back, I almost starved to death during those days, hungry every day"
Posted on 8/2/25 at 12:58 pm to TigerintheNO
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Posted on 8/2/25 at 1:01 pm to La Place Mike
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He got down voted because the sixties were great.
Tell me you didn't live through the 60's without telling me you never did.
The 60's sucked. Living life on the edge with the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 60's and going to school doing "Duck & Cover" drills------like that would save my arse in case of a nuclear missile strike....
Three assassinations of important people in the American landscape at the time. The riots that followed MLK being killed, to go along with the riots and racial tension when he was alive and organizing Civil Rights marches.
All the young men being drafted and sent to Nam-----a war that was fought with our hands tied behind our backs by the powers that be at the time and resulting in over 50K of our young men dying.
The many anti-war demonstrations, draft card burners, young men heading to Canada to dodge the draft and the riots that caused.
Or are you only thinking about the music that came along during that time period and the so-called "Flower Power" hippy movement?????
Posted on 8/2/25 at 1:03 pm to gumbo2176
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The 60's sucked. Living life on the edge with the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 60's and going to school doing "Duck & Cover" drills------like that would save my arse in case of a nuclear missile strike....
Three assassinations of important people in the American landscape at the time. The riots that followed MLK being killed, to go along with the riots and racial tension when he was alive and organizing Civil Rights marches.
All the young men being drafted and sent to Nam-----a war that was fought with our hands tied behind our backs by the powers that be at the time and resulting in over 50K of our young men dying.
The many anti-war demonstrations, draft card burners, young men heading to Canada to dodge the draft and the riots that caused.
Or are you only thinking about the music that came along during that time period and the so-called "Flower Power" hippy movement?????
I lived through all of that and I still think it was an awesome time to be alive, living through some of the most historic times in this country's short life
Posted on 8/2/25 at 1:12 pm to fastlane
The greatest 20 years of our existence.
Glad to have experienced both. Kid in the 80's/early 90's and teenager in the mid-late 90's. (Born in '81).
It was a great time to be alive. There was an innocence then that doesn't exist now and never will again.
Glad to have experienced both. Kid in the 80's/early 90's and teenager in the mid-late 90's. (Born in '81).
It was a great time to be alive. There was an innocence then that doesn't exist now and never will again.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 1:32 pm to fastlane
The 90s was all fun and games until y2k hype. Then it was the end of times all over again.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 1:44 pm to TDFreak
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Young American men getting shipped off to Vietnam
In the 50s young American men were shipped off to Korea. Was that great?
Harry Truman almost getting assassinated was great?
The cold war heating up was great?
Every decade has low points and living in the sixties was pretty fricking great!
Posted on 8/2/25 at 2:12 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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Yes. Best movies, best music, best president, best everything
This is so true. The music was iconic and unique. The movies were original and smart. What would the world be like if John Hughes didn’t make those movies. His movies defined the 80’s. He was just a brilliant, talented guy who was right time, right place.
Vacation was based on a short story Hughes wrote for National Lampoon about a vacation his family took when he was a kid. It was called Vacation ‘59 or something like that.
There were other for sure like Fast Times that was amazing and launched the careers of several actors/actresses.
Today, there are almost no original movies. Most are remakes or crappy franchises that are made for the sole purpose of making money.
80’s music was great because the groups were all truly talented. The music today all sounds the same. It’s manufactured “talent” chosen by a label and then packaged and promoted.
Posted on 8/2/25 at 2:18 pm to fastlane
I always say if I had the option to go back to the 80’s/90’s and was able to bring my kids with me, I’d go back in a heartbeat.
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