The Meaning of the '90s

[luka]

What is the meaning of the '90s

 

[version]

I'm currently thinking of it as a somewhat wide-eyed vision of what technology could have led to. You look at something like that Peshay vid and there's this expansiveness to the environments depicted, they're alien and futuristic but there's a serenity to them.

 

[version]

Technology the liberator, like Burroughs' discussion of dreams as preparation for leaving the body and traveling into space. Weightlessness. The seamless melding of man and machine.

 

[craner]

It was a very short and very false Belle Époque.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Anti-Apocalypse. Millions who should have died were still alive. Souls resonated with this certainty. Lasted precisely 10 years.

 

[version]

It was a very short and very false Belle Époque.

What do you think was false about it?

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

I remember Yeltsin resigned as 1999 ended, well, that was significant

 

[pattycakes_]

I'm currently thinking of it as a somewhat wide-eyed vision of what technology could have led to. You look at something like that Peshay vid and there's this expansiveness to the environments depicted, they're alien and futuristic but there's a serenity to them.

that's what came to mind for me too. optimism in the air. the future just around the corner and everything's going to be alright. you hear it in the music - a sense of journey, moving forward, exploration. hints of uncertainty, but the collective conscious hasn't been contaminated yet. hope reigns. good will overcome. earnestness was legal tender.

edit: at least that's how it feels to me, but i grew up in the 90s so it's probably rose tinted.

 

[version]

edit: at least that's how it feels to me, but i grew up in the 90s so it's probably rose tinted.

Yeah, I'm wary of this too. I mean darkside came out of the 90s and so did Nick Land...

 

[shiels]

that was the first thing that came to my mind too. the last gasp of tech Utopia but I feel that’s a nostalgic view of a quite narrow 90s aesthetic

 

[luka]

The '90s was very threatening more scary than today

 

[luka]

I talk to my other posh friends and the thing we all agree on is how terrified we were

 

[luka]

Our parents were pre gentrification gentrifiers and we grew up quite stressed

 

[luka]

We internalised an attitude of permanent defensiveness and fear

 

[shiels]

it was very chill in Belfast though

 

[Benny Bunter]

My teenage years, which were pretty stressful, but looking back I'm just so happy I lived them pre-internet time. The internet spoiled everything really.

 

[luka]

And our resentment for latter generations is based on the,it absence of fear I think

 

[pattycakes_]

Yeah, I'm wary of this too. I mean darkside came out of the 90s and so did Nick Land...

hard to discern through that kind of fog. but i think we can all agree that there was more positivity being passed around, higher spirits and more fun in general. you can taste it from all the archived media on youtube etc from back then. in particular youth media which was mostly vibrant and playful.

 

[craner]

What do you think was false about it?

a time for fear

Events Strike Somalian Warlords, drug dealers and gunmen high on qat murdering civilians, stealing food from the starving, extorting hug...

atimeforfear.blogspot.com

 

[Benny Bunter]

The 90s were like the 60s.