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The more I think about the late 90s and mid 00s, the less I want to go back to it. What I want is to not know things, not know how horrible things are, because I know things in the 90s and 00s were horrid too, I was just too young to notice.
I'm sure there are some people out there that have nostalgia for 2012 because that's when they were a child. I remember the massive push for Ron Paul 2012 and how insufferable everyone was.
That's nostalgia for you. When we were kids, our parents had fond memories of their early days. In 30 years, kids today will pine for these times. It's how that works. It's not universal, but for most people, they remember fondly the time they were younger, healthier, had less responsibility and their whole lives ahead of them.
I have good news! They won't see 30 years.
I mean yeah normally I'd agree with you but progress was still going in kind of the right direction, albiet slowly then.
We've spent some years backsliding now, and honestly I do miss the part where things felt like they where getting better, not worse.
Was it? Because I remember how things were in 2012, and that's not how I remember it. Anita Sarkeesian started her Kickstarter in May of 2012, and thus Gamergate was unofficially born, and 2 years later it was officially born, followed by Brexit, followed by Trump. Technically Anita's stuff wasn't what kicked off Gamergate, but the backlash against her primed an audience ready to pounce when Gamergate actually started and took half the internet on the road to fascism.
2012 is the year everything started going downhill. While yes, some social progress was made, it was in 2012 that the seeds of today's problems were planted, at least on the internet anyway. One could argue that 9/11 and the Patriot Act and massive expansion of executive power contributed heavily as well.
Either way, shit was bad in 2012 as well, we were all just too blind to see it. The only people who actually did see it were pariahs on the internet for years and weren't listened to because they were 'SJW's.
I won’t lie, I was a teenager from a privileged background in 2012 and the only thing that I was scared of was the Mayan calendar. It was also the last good year for YouTube before it started to really go downhill.