The 1980s was fun during the 80s. In the 90s much of what happened culturally in the 80s was looked down on as dated and uncool. The 80s was a time of optimism in the west, and the 90s a time of absurd self-congratulatory optimism. "Things are great and will only get better." By the late 90s some radio stations were playing 80s music as part of nostalgia lineups.
As the millennium passed and the promise of a sweet future turned into the realization of a not so great culturally stagnating eternal now, people began using the internet to have at first ironic but later desperate for the past nostalgia trips. These focused on the 80s.
The nostalgia began to take on a desperate tone as the 80s nostalgia wave went on seemingly without end. Right now, we are seeing a bit of a backlash that is trying to paint the 90s and early 2000s as the time of eternal hope and fun. And of course the 80s must be uncool again for this to happen.
In my opinion this is little more than a continuation of the 80s nostalgia trip and a refusal to accept the continuing culturally stagnant now that we live in. A yearning for the past rather than a hope for or an effort to create a bright future.
TLDR The above may be bullshit but I find it hilarious that the "80s" Turtle show was mostly produced in the 90s and it's what everyone thinks of when they think of TMNT. Even the ones who obsess over the early 2000s show.
The 80s-90s had direct themes of a unified culture. It wasn’t a constant ideological zeitgeist of cultural Marxism like today. The Obama legacy will be seen as the death of Americana, because in truth that is what the results of his presidency was.
Kurt Kobain was a product of typical psychological abuse by a feminist mother and likely an hero'd himself because of it. Didn't help that he hooked up with Courtney Love who is yet another toxic feminist bigot.
Yeah and a lot of troons were molested as children. Doesn't excuse the wrongdoing. The man was THE root cause of the disgusting postmodernist nihilism that has seized two entire generations. To hell with him.
Things had more staying power.back.then..now everything lasts for ten minutes before it's replaced by NEXT THING. But I'm the 90s, movies and songs and shows and books from the 80s were still very popular, even with kids who were only toddlers in the 80s. So that tells me that 80s stuff was actually pretty good.
The 1980s was fun during the 80s. In the 90s much of what happened culturally in the 80s was looked down on as dated and uncool. The 80s was a time of optimism in the west, and the 90s a time of absurd self-congratulatory optimism. "Things are great and will only get better." By the late 90s some radio stations were playing 80s music as part of nostalgia lineups.
As the millennium passed and the promise of a sweet future turned into the realization of a not so great culturally stagnating eternal now, people began using the internet to have at first ironic but later desperate for the past nostalgia trips. These focused on the 80s.
The nostalgia began to take on a desperate tone as the 80s nostalgia wave went on seemingly without end. Right now, we are seeing a bit of a backlash that is trying to paint the 90s and early 2000s as the time of eternal hope and fun. And of course the 80s must be uncool again for this to happen.
In my opinion this is little more than a continuation of the 80s nostalgia trip and a refusal to accept the continuing culturally stagnant now that we live in. A yearning for the past rather than a hope for or an effort to create a bright future.
TLDR The above may be bullshit but I find it hilarious that the "80s" Turtle show was mostly produced in the 90s and it's what everyone thinks of when they think of TMNT. Even the ones who obsess over the early 2000s show.
The 80s-90s had direct themes of a unified culture. It wasn’t a constant ideological zeitgeist of cultural Marxism like today. The Obama legacy will be seen as the death of Americana, because in truth that is what the results of his presidency was.
You nailed it. Obama was the signal that it was time to ramp up the revolution, and it's just gotten worse every year since
Living through it, the 90s WAS the 80s until Nirvana puked up nihilism all over the zeitgeist.
"hey guys, what if we made heroin into a musical genre?"
And then everybody clapped.
Was that before or after Kurt Cobain blew his own head off?
Kurt Kobain was a product of typical psychological abuse by a feminist mother and likely an hero'd himself because of it. Didn't help that he hooked up with Courtney Love who is yet another toxic feminist bigot.
Yeah and a lot of troons were molested as children. Doesn't excuse the wrongdoing. The man was THE root cause of the disgusting postmodernist nihilism that has seized two entire generations. To hell with him.
Things had more staying power.back.then..now everything lasts for ten minutes before it's replaced by NEXT THING. But I'm the 90s, movies and songs and shows and books from the 80s were still very popular, even with kids who were only toddlers in the 80s. So that tells me that 80s stuff was actually pretty good.
Excellent analysis. I remember when 80s nostalgia took off with The Wedding Singer and that came out in 1997!