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Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan
I miss it so bad I can't even describe it. And we're not talking Turtlemania, or any popular culture at all. This is much more serious (except maybe songs like this).
The demolition of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the end of the Cold War in the early 1990's led to an even more open world, coming together and still guided by Western Democracy influences. Military budgets experienced cutbacks. There were some troubles in Yugoslavia as it was dissolved, but eventually Slobodan Miloševi? was removed from office and required to resign. On the other hand, the dissolution of Czechoslovakia went better and the Northern Ireland conflict ceased.
For each upcoming year passing, it felt the world shrunk as the borders had been removed. Radio, television and the Internet contributed a lot to this.
This was all symbolized by the Mc Donald's restaurants in Moscow, or the large number of Russian ice hockey players in the NHL. It was a time of globalization, as everything was mixed up.
Cut forward to 2021, we see extreme nationalism growing especially in Eastern Europe, countries who just 10 years ago enjoyed integration into Western democracy.
Everywhere, people talk about national identities in an extreme way, as if globalization never happened. Meanwhile, the Chinese are now on their building a supervision system with the same technology that once was used to kick out corrupt single-party regimes.
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This was great.
There is a huge difference for how great the 90's were for those of us who experienced the decade as teenagers going into our 20's near the end of it, and those who experienced the decade as kids going into their mid-teens near the end of it.
Huge perceptual and cultural differences there. Like the difference between experiencing and understanding the cultural relevancy versus believing that the 90's were all about Beetleborgs and Brittney Spears. Or being there for the Alt-Rock movement or seeing Alt-Rock as "old" and thinking that Carson Daily was what music was all about.