I know this gets discussed a lot here but it seems like the prosperity and optimism the people once had 20 years ago has been completely replaced with despair and paranoia
Is there anyway we can revert back to the pre-9/11 and post cold war atmosphere?
Music video below sums up what it was once like living in a prosperous society
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE
Damn OP, that song hit me right in the feels... brought back some damn good memories...
> summer 1999 in Amsterdam
> Young teenage years
> Felt fucking invincible
> PC games were still good
> Felt like i could do anything i wanted in the world
> Getting high and fingerbanging girls from school in the park
>>69027863
>Is there anyway we can revert back to the pre-9/11 and post cold war atmosphere?
Not without a war on a massive scale there's not.
>>69027863
damn, as a faggot millenial this is much more appealing than the shit this generation has. wish there was more of this optimism around.
>>69027863
I too am old enough to be aware of the schism
9/11 was like a darkness that descended on the world
It has yet to lift
>>69029076
I keep hearing people say 9/11 ruined everything but it really seems like something else did
It wasn't until 2007 or 2008 when shit really hit the fan
>>69029251
Widespread use of social media
>>69029251
2007/2008 financial crisis was inevitable once the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan started which were inevitable given 9/11
I like to think of it like this:
9/11/2001 marks the beginning of WWIII
World War 3 will last for generations, we're now 15 years into it
It's a slow smoldering mess, with occasional flare ups
Unfortunately it will all ignite into flames someday
but it all started on 9/11
>>69029625
9/11 didn't cause the financial crisis. It was the banks loaning out too much money and the US government bailing out big corporations
>>69029985
Not directly, no
But, being engaged in 5 trillion dollars worth of wars while running deficits and not raising taxes required economic stimulus
That economic stimulus came in the form of low interest rates and cheap money from the Federal Reserve Bank
That led to an aberration in the lending and speculating markets, a bubble in the real estate sector formed, and the crash was on
>US bailing out big oil
I don't remember that happening
>>69030483
Oh shit I never realized that
I just read that the Feds lowered the interest rate after the attacks which caused an excessive flow of money in the economy
I guess 9/11 caused all these chain of events
whenever i look at american shit from 20 years ago i can't help but notice there are hardly any niggers in sight.
nowadays american media is 70% black people, 20% white women, 10% gay white men.
No one cared about 911 besides America the same way we ignore the Armenian genocide and famine in bumfuck, Africa. The comments about a blanket of darkness smothering the world on that day are beyond pretentious. I'm sorry if you lost anyone in that tragedy but it really did not have the impact on the world you thought it did. The entire civilised world is seeing a decline in living standards since the 90s despite technology moving forward. Whether you're a westerner or from the commie block you'll have to pay back what the boomers borrowed or rebuild what the socialists destroyed.
Oh and by the way people were so dumb in the past holy shit how could they not see what was going on? We'd never fall for that xD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeETEoNfOg
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>>69033692
>No one cared about 911 besides America the same way we ignore the Armenian genocide and famine in bumfuck, Africa.
Underage fag detected. The entire Anglo world (especially Canada, UK, and Australia) was acting like it happened in their own country for about a year. I find that hilarious, because as someone from Indiana, I didn't give that much of a shit about 9/11 myself.
No one cares about what Poland or the rest of Europe thinks since none of us consider you our allies.
>>69027863
>I know this gets discussed a lot here but it seems like the prosperity and optimism the people once had 20 years ago has been completely replaced with despair and paranoia
Go back an additional 20 years, and all that paranoia was there in the form of the cold war.
>>69035371
america was overflowing when they had that famine in africa. we are the world ect. you couldn't get away from it.
Here we go again, /pol/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0B9y4DoZZQ
>>69027863
Simple... look into picture - mostly whites.. what happened after that? The gap between nigger hoods and white people hoods broke down... the mixture happened - and quality of life downgraded for everyone.
