You Pick The Decade

[Arūnas]

it's obvious, 69

[Aodhan]

India 1280BC

[Blondie]

90'

[Jana]

00s. Early 2000s remain my favorite era.

[Hektor12]

"Decades" when you can go to Bronze Age? No logic.

Western shores of Lake Baikal please..

[Aspirin]

90s

[Anglo-Celtic]

None. I wouldn't want to repeat a single day of history.

People always think things were better in the past, regardless. Every generation will think the subsequent generations are crazy. You could find a lot of overlap between the late 80s and early 90s for instance. It's not like the culture just suddenly shifts in such an abrupt manner.

But the 60s were sheer degeneracy. Hippies, feminism and a bunch of drug addicts. The 70s and 80s both had issues, but people still believed they had a bright future or at least a chance to obtain something beneficial. Less technology encroachment into everything, some political correctness but nothing like the drowning tsunami of today's culture. However, things like gangs, drugs, and political corruption were rampant.

If you pulled the numbers, the amount of TV watched per day by the average kid in the 80's paled in comparison to the amount of time the average kid spends consuming social media today.

In the 90's negro culture was already being glorified and the rot was taking hold. Things didn't just suddenly go to shit for no reason.

There was still SOME good things 2000-2009ish. There was some okay music. A handful of decent video games. But you knew by then things weren't going to improve.

There was every bit as much misery back then as there is now but the movies and music were a little better. That's it.

There were also less spics and other undesirables in the States. Less ooga boogas in the UK too lel.

I see. Thanks for taking the fun out of it.

[KirillMazur]

00s. Early 2000s remain my favorite era.

Yes, I also think that the first half of the 2000s (until ~ 2007) is underestimated - a quiet time, low prices, ease of building a career, a small penetration of the Internet into everyday life, more open people, good music and films still exist in sufficient quantity, around there are still almost no fences, guards and cameras, subcultures of all kinds etc.
In addition, I will be original, and I will choose the 30s - the rapid growth of the country, you are needed everywhere, artels and cooperativism, the prestige of labor and science, return of conservative values, cultural optimism.

[Creoda]

I certainly wouldn't choose any time I've already lived through. The 90s and early 2000s were good as a kid, but I wouldn't have liked them as an adult. Leave them as fond personal memories; knowing how bad the rot was and how all that happened then was leading to today's dystopia is just depressing. When I see teen/young adult/gen X stuff (the generation above) from the 90s I find it depressing as hell, for some reason. Partly memories of things I disliked, partly melancholy at the degeneration and lost youth of that era. By contrast the early to mid 2000s felt like more of a cultural/political vacuum, which by today's standards is a relief, and I can understand others' nostalgia for it.

[Anglo-Celtic]

I certainly wouldn't choose any time I've already lived through. The 90s and early 2000s were good as a kid, but I wouldn't have liked them as an adult. Leave them as fond personal memories; knowing how bad the rot was and how all that happened then was leading to today's dystopia is just depressing. When I see teen/young adult/gen X stuff (the generation above) from the 90s I find it depressing as hell, for some reason. Partly memories of things I disliked, partly melancholy at the degeneration and lost youth of that era. By contrast the early to mid 2000s felt like more of a cultural/political vacuum, which by today's standards is a relief, and I can understand others' nostalgia for it.

I hate 2021. I wanted George Jetson, but I got George Orwell instead.