re: What is the greatest decade in history to have been a teenager in?

Graduated HS in 99. Sometimes I wish I would’ve been born 10 years earlier (with respect to a time to grow up in). Would’ve liked to have been a little kid in the 70s and early 80s when Star Wars/the first wave of Spielberg movies all came out.

I do remember watching my cousins play the original super Mario brothers IN the arcade when I was like 4-5 and thinking how cool it was.

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50's...

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I have (much ) older siblings that talk about how cool the 50s were- though they weren't teenagers until the 60s. I can see where the post-WW2 years would've been a fun time to be growing up, as well...Much simpler times; much less crime....

Definitely the 2010’s

I was in my 20’s starting in 1980 but felt like a teen with all the great shite going on.... the best overall decade of my life.

The 1990's was a million times better than today. We had the best music ever, on the technology ascent, we had stronger hegemony, and we had UNITY.

In the 1990's I noticed an huge improvement in different races of Americans got along with one another. Woke would never have gained any traction in 1990's because it would be viewed a as lame and superfluous institutionalization of what the American people were naturally already doing.

As for the street lights turning off, in my neighborhood, the street lights turned on when the sun was setting and kicked off around when the sun was coming up.

Therefore, I must conclude you're a Vampire-American and you grew up in an Undead subdivision. I'm not sure how Vampires and Liches fit into the current conversation about inter-demographic drama, but I'm sure they're feeling with uncertainties and challenges we can't even imagine.

1964 to 1974.
Music is unparalleled.
Films and television going through amazing changes and growth.
You could leave the house on a Summer morning, call home at night to say your sleeping at your friend's house, and disappear for days at a time.
Underage drinking and smoking wasn't the end of the world.
Every social disease was cured with penicillin.
If you avoided Vietnam you were golden.
If you survived Vietnam you had a righteous chip on your shoulder for life.
Playboy centerfolds looked like real women and Julie Newmar was on Batman.

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1980s


And it isn't close.

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It's close. 70s was the free spirit era. But the 80s did kick arse.

Definitely before the internet porn era. The feeling of unwrapping that fresh Penthouse after going through the embarrassment of buying it from behind the counter at a Circle K can't be replaced.

An interesting paradox is that we can almost all agree that the 1990s were a good time, and better than the 2020s in every respect, yet we cannot somehow just do the things we did back then instead of doing what we do now and make a better world.

I mean, I think we could, but the problem is people want to do it "but with the Internet" or "but with more rights for sexual deviants" or "but with open container laws and mandatory auto insurance." Unfortunately, we had that beautiful 1990s world precisely because we didn't have those things. They are part and parcel of what made the 1990s what they were.

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Definitely before the internet porn era. The feeling of unwrapping that fresh Penthouse after going through the embarrassment of buying it from behind the counter at a Circle K can't be replaced.

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I remember going to the store at like 2 in the morning so no one would see me.