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2010s nostalgia

AnonusAnonus
edited 2014-03-16 19:29:04 in General
I know this is probably WAY too early, but what will people remember most about this decade in 15-20 years?

My picks:


  • Angry Birds
  • Adventure Time
  • Despicable Me
  • Phineas & Ferb
  • Gravity Falls
  • pretty much any Disney/Pixar movie
  • Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr

Comments

  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    (assuming u mean euramericans)

    angry birds doesn't seem sticky

    probably not the syrian war. maybe bin laden

    google having a shitload of "apps" and generally taking over the web

    hopefully the ad model of web will die within the decade and we'll probably remember that bubble collapse more than other net things
  • criminalscumcriminalscum
    People will blend the decade together with the 2000s.

    I honestly can't tell the two apart.
  • TreTre
    image
    • Regular Show (personally)
    • MLP: FIM
    • Heapers' Hangout
    • possibly Kill la Kill
  • Miss Miko MayoneggMiss Miko Mayonegg
    More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    I don't even care because Touhou.
  • TreTre
    image
    oh, yeah

    • Skrillex
    • EDM (bluh) in general
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    criminalscum said:

    People will blend the decade together with the 2000s.

    I honestly can't tell the two apart.

    you'll be able to do so in a few years' time
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    more like, we _won't_ be able to do so in a few years' time.

    time runs together the farther we are from it
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    what i meant is that the distinctions between the decades get clearer-cut as they go on
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    the reality is that every decade actually runs five years into the next one

    the 80s didn't end until 1995, the 90s until 2005, and we haven't actually exited the 2000s yet
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    There's a lot of '90s stuff that hit before 1995 (e.g. grunge, The Simpsons, the Nicktoons)...
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    edited 2014-03-16 21:28:49
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Even that depends on the decade, and may be really subjective. The 1980s ended for me in 1991-1992, the 1980s itself was split into two parts (1980-1987 and 1987-1992), and the 1990s didn't end for me until, oh, 2007. :P
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    "Decades" are entirely arbitrary anyway.

    Things generally change on a continuum.  Maybe at different speeds, but still along a continuum.  "Decades" are only there as convenient signposts along which people draw lines.

    So stop thinking in decades.  Start thinking in more functional groupings.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    so there was roughly this period of 2001 to 2008 that involved the war on terror stuff and roughly started with 9/11 and ended with the economic downturn

    then starting with the economic downturn there has been a new period in time, roughly
    this period has been characterized by more political instability, with the arab spring being a prime and dramatic example
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    And before 2001, we had the 1990s economic boom, which started roughly in 1993-1995 with the rise of public Internet access.
  • HexartesHexartes
    edited 2014-03-16 21:53:22
    Honestly I feel like the ambivalence towards the 00's and the 10's is somewhat unique. I mean, people pretty much "got" what the eighties were going to be like after about five years in.
  • Section42LSection42L
    edited 2014-03-16 21:52:58
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    I'd say that, on a cultural level, the 2000s ended when Occupy Wall Street initiated.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    think about this all you want, Time's just gonna keep fuckin' with you
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    Kexruct said:

    Honestly I feel like the ambivalence towards the 00's and the 10's is somewhat unique. I mean, people pretty much "got" what the eighties were going to be like after about five years in.

    do you have contemporary sources on that
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I remember 1985, we were as confused as ever

    kindergarten was tough, man
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    I didn't know what the decade was going to be in 1985. I was one year old; I didn't know anything.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2014-03-16 22:40:28
    On a broader scale, the era hasn't really changed much since the 90s, or even the 80s, except with the implementation of the internet as a worldwide public communication medium.

    At least in the United States, there have been few, if any, major changes in the way we live:
    • Our transportation technology and infrastructure -- still heavily dominated by cars for passengers and trucks for goods, with some train and air travel for long distances (and all this mostly fueled by fossil fuels), and only a smattering of bike and foot travel in dense urban areas.
    • Our building construction and community planning methods -- still using the same contemporary styles of architecture, still thinking of building styles as decorative rather than functional, and still frequently motivated the desire to own single-family homes with drywalls and master suites and lawns and garages.
    • Our sources of energy are still broadly dominated by fossil fuel sources, with a little nuclear and a bit of renewables here and there.  Power generation is still highly centralized -- it's still single power plants doing tons of generation and serving large numbers of customers.
    • Our economic understanding is still roughly the same.  We're still looking at jobs numbers like we still have a labor-intensive manufacturing-based job market, and we're still measuring things in GDP.  And we're still talking about the "American Dream" (though this is changing a bit lately).
    • Our foreign policy has changed a bit but people here and abroad still see the United States as a world-scale superpower, militarily and economically.  Which, let's be honest, it is.  And partly as a consequence of this, we're still grappling with many cases of intervention vs. non-intervention, based on lots of conflicting interests and aspirations.  The biggest change in this regard has been the shift from a territory-control-style thinking (the tradition of centuries of European and other wars through the Cold War) to thinking about non-state actors and terrorism after 9/11.
    • Our political system is still dominated by two political parties.  The parties have become more polarized ideologically, and there are some ideological/cultural-political realignments going around the country, but this has not yet led to any dam-breaking moments such as one party becoming electorally irrelevant or being replaced by another or a many-party system emerging or anything.  And broadly speaking, we are still mainly politically stable, yet we still have lots of kinks in our system to iron out before we reach any ideals of liberty or equality that we aspire to.
    • The only thing that's majorly changed is how the rise of the internet has led to greater exposure to information and creative media, and how that has caused various things like challenging the challenging (though still not toppling) the established media companies by lowering the barrier-to-entry for independent creation and publishing of information and media works, and many questions about legality and copyright and privacy, as well as what effects this might have on us culturally and psychologically.  That said, despite the dizzying amount of media available to us, we are still nowhere near a post-scarcity economy where our ideas can really be who we are and our contribution to society.


    This is why I say nothing much has changed in the past three decades.
  • TachyonTachyon
    edited 2014-03-17 07:05:34
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    The culture of the Internet has changed substantially.  Through most of the 2000s, it was still mostly a geek thing.  It was only towards the end of the decade that sites like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube achieved the pop culture status they have now.

    On the whole i think the distinctions between decades get less clear over time, not more so.  People remember the big historical events from the first half of the 20th century, but are pretty vague on what pop culture developments happened when.  The 19th century gets treated as a single moment, anything prior to that exists in mediaeval stasis until you get to really ancient times, and prehistoric species that existed in different eras are assumed to have lived side by side.

    i think the only reason we distinguish so clearly between more recent decades is because we stereotype them.  Like a lot of what people remember of the sixties actually happened in the early 70s, and vice versa.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    It would be nice if our memory of the past did not decay logarithmically.
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