i object to the whole "90s nostalgia is just cause you were a kid and unaware of how terrible everything was" because yeah, maybe

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i object to the whole "90s nostalgia is just cause you were a kid and unaware of how terrible everything was" because yeah, maybe

but in the 90s what nazis did was still very much living memory and people knew what you do to them. also technology actually was a source of life improvements and optimism instead of whatever the fuck this techno-fascist hype cycle bullshit we have now is

my home country the netherlands hadn't been hollowed out by decades of neoliberal bullshit

i could keep going

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

and i'm certainly not the only elder millennial (or gen x-er) i know with stories about how certain things were measurably less bullshit then

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

like yeah things weren't perfect and in many ways things weren't good, they were outright bad, even! but in many ways the 90s were not the kind of dystopia we find ourselves in today and maybe you shouldn't be condescending people about that

[monkee@other.li]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I remember optimism with the Berlin wall coming down - end of cold war and all that. ​​

[Gast]

@monkee @eniko
I remember seeing that on TV and thinking "Wow, maybe we're not going to due in nuclear fire after all!"

[monkee@other.li]

@kirtai@tech.lgbt I do not remember the Atomic Doomsday fears to be honest... i was about 10 when the wall fell. ​​

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