The Nineties wrapup
Posted by
Reagen
Sep 30 '22, 09:19
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Is it just me or did he not mention The Simpsons even once? Strange omission, along with Toy Story and the rise of CGI animation, which you could actually build something out of, with the sudden urge to hail a lot of really mediocre entertainment just because it was "made" in a computer.
Dismissing OK Computer? I cast thee out, Chuck!
The last chapter hit like a punch in the throat. I was 24 when the towers came down, and one of my lasting memories from the months after that was a sense that we had lost a carefree and open world. The world has continued to both get larger (in the sense of awareness) and smaller (in the sense of physical access) ever since then. We only got around 10 years of relative carefree existence until everything became The Most Important Thing. I'm not a nostalgia guy, but what I miss is what we were promised by the hope of the 90s. There were problems, but they were normal problems. After that it was all about what everything meant. It's a bit of "Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again" stretched out into book length.
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