I absolutely hate this term, what you thought that little fucking bubble of comfort was going to shield you from the mistakes committed by society?
The pendulum doesn’t give a shit where it swings, the era of comfort during the golden era of neoliberalism was Interim period, and it was only reserved for those belonging to certain few and select areas, I.E. White middle class
The 90s had a huge crime wave, drug epidemic, homicides, the unravelling of worker’s consciousness, mass unemployment. The 1992 LA riots, the destruction of cities like Miami, Detroit, New York, Pittsburgh and the countless cities in the Midwest, all because some greedy fuckwit bankers got the whole world as a pie to indulge in.
I wasn’t born in the 90s, and honestly? I can never live for a moment being born then, I would’ve been suffocated by the complete ignorance of the working class, things are bad now since that’s the natural decaying state of capitalism. The thrill and rush of ignorance can only be enjoyed by a select few now, don’t like it? Then fucking change it, stop crying about the past, look to future where you can be happy.
Anytime people say something like this, just read it as “when I grew up I didn’t pay attention to the news and other people so it all seemed awesome”
“everything was so great in the 90s” says the guy who never paid attention to a 90s hip hop song in his life
these people will literally never make the jump from “i miss my SEGA” to any kind of materialist or class analysis
