re: What’s the difference between this decade and the last?

Smart phones. Everyone's been too distracted to get anything worthwhile accomplished.

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Before the turn of the century, each decade had its own identity. Everything from music, styles, and general mood of the pubic was distinctly different from the decades before or after it. We can see or hear things from every decade from the past at least 7 or 8 decades and immediately know which decade it’s from because they each had their own identity.

But this decade and the last decade before it seem to have nothing to differentiate between the two and in fact other than politics and technology advancements, have no identity of their own at all.

What happened?

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clothing, music, movies, etc have all changed from the 2000s

You just got old and are not as aware of any of this anymore

that is what happened

Social media. It was there 10 to 12 years ago, sure. But now it is part of every hour of every day.

Pop and hip hop in the mainstream have railroaded rock n roll. White kids from Suburbia try to identify with Drake and Post Malone. My generation loved hip hop but rock was Yuuuuge.

SJWism is your #1 answer. Ferguson, MO changed the entire landscape.

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clothing, music, movies, etc have all changed from the 2000s

You just got old and are not as aware of any of this anymore

that is what happened

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Show us the difference. And by difference I want to see stuff in this decade being as different from stuff of the last decade as 80s parachute pants were from 70s bell bottoms or 60s Hendrix from 50s Chuck Berry.

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Did you not experience the 'Great Recession' in the last decade or were you just going to school?

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I haven’t been in school since 1988.

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I went through it as the main bread-winner with a family, working in the real estate development industry. No fun, no job, no money coming in and I was too old to get a 'lower' level job. Luckily, I got a temporary Independent Contractor job with the US Forest Service in the dark days due to an ARRA (American Restoration and Recovery ACT) inspecting maintenance & repairs to facilities. A lot of people consider that 'socialist welfare', this Republican was just glad to have a job then.

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Times were tough for sure. Thankfully I didn’t lose my job. But it wasn’t fun. As to what the Great Recession has to do with this thread though I’m not sure.

I was in college in the early 2000s. No college kids dress like we did today. Styles change.

low rise jeans vs high waist jeans
wide leg pants vs tight rolled pants
baggy shorts vs short shorts

2000s pop rock was dominant in music

nowadays pop rap is the dominant genre

I realize none of these will satisfy your argument, but to act like there are no differences between decades is pretty ignorant

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I realize none of these will satisfy your argument, but to act like there are no differences between decades is pretty ignorant

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So you can’t actually show any real differences so you resort to throwing out a petty insult at me instead.

The federal government used 9/11 to grow somehow into an even bigger and more monstrous leviathan than it was before that day.

And the internet, which was probably the most important invention of all time, has somehow made us dumber. We have a tool right at our fingertips that could be used for so much more good than what we use it for now. We have billions and billions of sites that we could go to and learn something (I consider this site to be among those, most of the time) yet we settle for SpongeBob memes and trolling. And people want to say that the internet is great for reaching across borders and bringing people together. I’ll argue that isn’t a good thing for the world at large. People are diverse and they coalesce in their same groups for a reason.

In reality, all this information has made us dumber.

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But this decade and the last decade before it seem to have nothing to differentiate between the two and in fact other than politics and technology advancements, have no identity of their own at all.

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wrong. You’re just old and washed up

If anyone on here has not seen this prophetic masterpiece, do yourself a favor and watch:
Idiocracy (Netflix rental)