Gonna out myself as a millennial here: I grew up in the US during the 1990s, and I don’t remember it as a particularly optimistic time. Maybe it was a function of where I lived – small, mostly working-class town out west – but the general mood seemed fearful and kind of cynical. People seemed really afraid of their neighbors, and you heard all kinds of weird, absurd rumors: lizard people in charge of the government, gangs of Satanists roaming the streets, every tenth person was a serial killer, etc. The culture was so vapid and meaningless: ONNNNCE MOOOOREEE YOU OPPPPEEEENNN THE DOOOOOOR, or however that stupid-ass song actually went.
And that was how it was in the west: just sort of unpleasant. Outside the west it was an absolute economic and social nightmare.
In the capitalist core, it was optimistic. Quarter of the world just became ripe for looting of magnitude previously unheard, capitalism entered one of the biggest boom cycles, history was “ending”, “democracy and freedom” won, they even got few more crumbs from the lord’s tables.
Not so much, if you lived outside the core, especially not in Russia, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia, China, Vietnam, Cuba etc. etc.
If you lived literally everywhere else except in USA and their puppets…
Japan didn’t they have issues?
Yeah, not to mention the new postsocialist puppets. It was brutal in Poland and worse everywhere else here except maybe GDR and Czech
The 90s were good? Really? Living through it; I must have missed it.
The 90s were so good that we were using CDs as car mirror decorations
Aaah the 90s, The Algerian civil war
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Bourgeois white privilege
“science was on the up and up” could have fooled me
We had Clinton telling people there was life on Mars. So there’s that.
If you are a upper middle class our capitalist in the USA and West Europe the rest of world was worst in the 90s because of the neoliberalism wave.
