Was the past a more optimistic time than the present?

midnight rain · 02-19-2013, 07:51 PM

This is mainly a question for you 30+ year olds

I only just became an adult a few years back and so I lack the overall perspective, but I'm looking for relatively mature perspectives of the 80's and 90s.

Were these better times? Better economy, homeland security (for you Murrricans), more thriving music scenes, pre-internet days where people's childhood wasn't corrupted by internet access. I enjoy the internet as much as anyone but it also damaged me in a lot of ways that probably never would've happened if I had grown up without it.

Most of this comes from my personal obsession with 80's culture at the moment, I feel like I really missed out.

02-19-2013, 07:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
midnight rain Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,711	Was the past a more optimistic time than the present? This is mainly a question for you 30+ year olds I only just became an adult a few years back and so I lack the overall perspective, but I'm looking for relatively mature perspectives of the 80's and 90s. Were these better times? Better economy, homeland security (for you Murrricans), more thriving music scenes, pre-internet days where people's childhood wasn't corrupted by internet access. I enjoy the internet as much as anyone but it also damaged me in a lot of ways that probably never would've happened if I had grown up without it. Most of this comes from my personal obsession with 80's culture at the moment, I feel like I really missed out.