Where did this myth about the supposed “optimism” of the 90s come from? I remember the government and media pushing the Glorious Capitalist Future in a big way, and of course you had idiot academics like Francis Fukuyama, but most people didn’t particularly seem to buy it. The 90s mostly struck me as a cynical, fearful era, where everybody thought their neighbor might be a pedophile serial killer, or (worse) a Milosevic sympathizer.
And that was just in the US. Everywhere else, the 90s were a hellhole.
Where did this myth about the supposed “optimism” of the 90s come from? I remember the government and media pushing the Glorious Capitalist Future in a big way, and of course you had idiot academics like Francis Fukuyama, but most people didn’t particularly seem to buy it. The 90s mostly struck me as a cynical, fearful era, where everybody thought their neighbor might be a pedophile serial killer, or (worse) a Milosevic sympathizer.
And that was just in the US. Everywhere else, the 90s were a hellhole.