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Everyone always talks about how good the 90's were. What was bad about the '90s?
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It's a nostalgic feeling, it had good parts and bad parts like any other era. If you were a teenager at that time you probably swear it produced the best ever music. The fall of the soviet union and the end of the cold war gave people hope the new millennium approaching will be a peaceful different one.
And then the wars in the Gulf, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Armenia, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Kosovo and others show us we're still in the same shitty world.
I was a teenager back then and I did not think it produced the best music. But I was not mainstream, I hated being like everyone else, as if we were robots. I made a point of going against the stream regarding aesthetics, religion and cultural stuff. I hate uniforms to this day. I don’t get the young these days dressing the same as the others. Is it an education thing? I mean, as a teenager you are looking for yourself, trying stuff to see what you like. Why would you just copy what everyone does?!
Ironically the 'nonconformist rebel who thinks themselves a more unique individual than their peers because they don't listen to the same music/dress the same way/have a niche hyperobsession/ act antisocially' is one of the most common and popular teenage archetypes.
Using generic punk identity signifers like dyed hair and piercings and only being into underground non-mainstream artist to show your not like everyone else, only serves to indicate that you are in fact predictably generic in identity seeking like everyone else.
So I guess my point is that maybe nothings changed about kids, its the same old same old. Most of them follow the trends and normalize to fit into tribal groups, the ones that don't pride themselves on nonconformity while paradoxically adopting tribal markers to distinguish themselves as a group that conforms to nonconformity.
News flash, we are all unique. People just do not embrace that, they are afraid to step outside the uniforms. And sometimes with good reasons, since society tends tu put down whoever is not like them. I did not give a shit about that. And I was very social, more so than now, so I don’t know where you get that analysis from. I also did not wear piercings, died hair and all that. I just did not want to have to buy some expensive clothes because they were fashionable and extremely uncomfortable many times. That did not impede me to make friends, but it did allow me to stand for myself and not conform to stupid norms. My parents taught me critical thinking, taught me to be responsible, and encouraged me to be happy in whichever form I had(and I was and am) and to fight for my rights and against bullying.