25 May 2024, 09:06 AM
AxtremusBest Decade with the best economy, best music, lowest crime, etc.
h/t @taiwan_girl next door:
quote:
So, we looked at the data another way, measuring the gap between each person’s birth year and their ideal decade. The consistency of the resulting pattern delighted us: It shows that Americans feel nostalgia not for a specific era, but for a specific age.
The good old days when America was “great” aren’t the 1950s. They’re whatever decade you were 11, your parents knew the correct answer to any question, and you’d never heard of war crimes tribunals, microplastics or improvised explosive devices. Or when you were 15 and athletes and musicians still played hard and hadn’t sold out.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...-to-data/ar-BB1mYttE [EDITED to fix the link.]
Be sure to look at the graphs/charts in the article, I find them very illuminated.
Link seems to be bad.
eta: Found it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...-to-data/ar-BB1mYttESame WaPo article that Steve gift linked.
25 May 2024, 12:10 PM
NinaWhat a fascinating article! Thanks for posting it.
25 May 2024, 01:52 PM
big alLots to digest in that data set. I can understand a lot of the nostalgia for our younger days. What really struck me was the enormous rise in pessimism about the present era, only matched or exceeded sometimes by the depression era. Made me think of the beginning lines of
A Tale of Two Cities.
quote:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Big Al
--------------------------------
Money seems to buy the most happiness when you give it away.
Why does everything have to be so complicated, all in the name of convenience. -ShiroKuro
A lifetime of experience will change a person. If it doesn't, then you're already dead inside. -MarkJ
25 May 2024, 04:34 PM
DanielI'm nostalgic about the '70's and 80's. The 90's weren't bad.
The country took a sharp turn for the worse after the 90's.
Jmho.
26 May 2024, 12:18 AM
RealPlayerMakes sense. We were young and hale, and the youth culture seemed natural and positive. Maybe the same for each generation?
On the other hand, I spent most of those young years sequestered in practice rooms trying to master the piano. I disdained the popular music of “my” generation. But I acknowledge the freedom and privilege to pursue my interests.
