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The 90s had a lot of good in them but I gotta admit I'm a bit tired of this nostalgic mindset people have about the past.

Sure, a lot of things are not going well today, but at the same time we have made amazing advancements in multiple areas where I'm sure most of you would regret going back to the 90s and not have them.

Advancements in medicine and science as well as social advancements in the form of a better understanding and acceptance of mental health issues. Being gay and trans today is also a lot easier than it was in the 90s. We hold sexual predators more and more responsible for their actions today than we did back then. More people today are aware and concerned about fixing the environment than they were in the 90s where you got to hear things about the ozone layer and then that was it.

Smoking is on its way out. Similar with alcohol. At least in my country. It is less nad less socially acceptable and more and more people turn away from those vices, which is amazing.

In my experience, more and more people raise their kids with respect for the child's emotional well being. My generation were barely seen as humans when we were children and I see more and more people around my age raising their children with the respect they didn't receive themselves when they were little. It is bound to create some more robust people in the future who have a healthy sense of self and who believe in themselves.

There are so many good things in the world right now, but if you only look for the bad and start romanticizing a past that wasn't really as perfect as you think it was, then you're, in my opinion, living wrong.

It's okay to appreciate things from the past and miss them, but this "the world was better" bullshit is just very counter productive and in many cases objectively untrue.

My favorite thing from The Matrix was the concept of "Residual Self Image." It is the perfect starting point to understanding dysphoria. If I was plugged into The Matrix, I would not at all look the way I actually do. I would look to you the way I see myself in my own mind.

So relevant now lol

Living in the 90s would be so chill compared to today.

Wealth inequality is fucking over everything.

I just want to be rewarded for working to support humanity with a life that doesn't feel like a prison. :c

If we really were to be in the Matrix that's fine, but could I maybe ask for some better living conditions? Maybe be able to actually afford things without constant worry and anxiety over whether I can pay the rent.

It was that gods damned Hadron collider, I’m telling you. It let the 5G into our reality and now we’re all being controlled by fucking lizard people from the Nth dimension who are after all of our blood.

It was in all the papers.

Probably not the place for it but I shall point out that the 00s were going swimmingly until the cunts at Goldman Sachs and others of a similar bent made a shedload of cash out of turning the housing market into a massive casino and then stuck taxpayers the world over with the bill in the '08 crash and the global economy has been pretty much fucked ever since.

It's Goldman Sachs. Those board members should be in prison.

Mid-2000s were also kinda nice. We got relatively capable pocket computing devices. Proper 3D games. Avatar: The Last Airbender. Music was not yet so... algorithmic.

Kinda downhill from there, though, ngl.

As a trans person, I'm very glad I live today and not the 1990s

Peak was 2011 change my mind.