re: I was born in the 90’s, were the 80’s and 90’s truly the best time to be alive?

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I was born in the 90’s, were the 80’s and 90’s truly the best time to be alive?

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I was born in '69 ( ) and I would say it was the best time for a kid, tied with being young (pre-teen) in the early 50s and then growing up through that era.

-In the 1950s you had an economy which was booming as the US was the only major manufacturing power left in the world, the upcoming interstate system would pour gasoline on that growth and a new sort of music called "Rock and Roll" would soon emerge. Energy (electricity, gasoline) was cheap and technology was progressing with leaps and bounds. All of this combined with the satisfaction of having defeated a great evil in WW2 to create an era of unbridled optimism and adventure in the US.

-The 70s-80s were right up there with it. We had the advantage of color tv, the greater reach and clarity of FM radio, long-distance travel with cheap energy and the largess of a couple of decades of solid economic growth. If I were to pin it down to a phrase, it would be along the lines of "a refining of what it was probably like in the 1950s". The country was still growing, kids still patrolled streets on bikes with little need for parental supervision because the majority of society knew how to behave itself. We still had cartoons on Saturday mornings (making each Saturday morning a bit of a mini-Christmas), Coca-Cola was still made with the old formula (sans the actual coke, of course), the news was reported fairly (or at least as fair as anyone could tell) and "fast food" was more of an occasional treat than a normal occurrence and no one was stupid enough to bring firearms to school (to use them as protection or aggression, if they were on school grounds it was because they were in someone's vehicle due to their going hunting after class).

Even though we had events like the "oil crisis" and the inflation of the late 70s and early 80s, there was still that optimism and sense of adventure backed by the certainty that the US was the best damned place in the world to be.

Aside from technology, the biggest difference was attitude. The brunt of societal psychology was still strongly to let things go rather than obsessively navel-gaze about them and it remained that way until it began to slowly change in the early-mid 1990s.

The 60s and 70s were pretty good too. No technology - just running the head lanes and swimming and fishing in the Mississippi River spiller over ponds. Man I loved my childhood.

I would give up all the modern conveniences if I could go back to the 80s or 90s. Life was more simple and nobody cared or paid attention to the idiots in the fringes of society.

70s were the most fun but those were my high school and college years.

I’ve said it many times, and it still rings true, I honestly pity those who were not young and alive during the 1980s.

When I was 15 in 1985 I bought a 1971 in violet 4 speed hemi cuda with a white interior and billboards for 5k so I would say yes absolutely

Yes

Agreed.

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s. Life was more simple and nobody cared or paid attention to the idiots in the fringes of society.

They also didn't pay attention to all the rampant societal pathologies, apparently.

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yep, the Manson family was just a wild and wacky version of the Brady Bunch