• Ech@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    The site put his “10 Things Everyone Should Know Going Into The Next Decade” article next for me, and point 3 had a pretty noteworthy bit, being said 1/1/2020:

    Go back 10 more years, and things get confusing and darkly hilarious. The big worry in 1999 popular culture was that Clinton-era economic prosperity was robbing white male professionals of their innate need for meaning (Fight Club, American Beauty, The Matrix). “Sure, we all have good jobs, nice homes and plenty of money, but at what cost? Can’t this much easy comfort be a bad thing?”

    No one could have known 9/11 was around the corner, of course. In the same way, you can’t possibly guess the huge thing that’s coming to fuck things up in a few years. Hell, even if someone came back and told us, we’d probably just be confused. (I’m imagining 2010 me trying and failing to wrap my head around “Gamergate” or “incels.”)