Of all the things young people could have latched onto, it’s the decade of the great recession almost no place on earth really recovered from, a head bozo in the US that’s somehow popular but turned the world into his personal drone playground, while the empire continued as it did.
It was the decade every social movement failed in, and mostly retreated back to moralistic forms of liberalism, just as every equally moralistic right wing reaction grew exponentially, leading to the current issues.
It was the decade climate change was decided to be fixed through a bunch of treaties worth less than the paper they were written on.
It was the decade of the start of the return of the malaise of collapsing empires. Poverty, hunger, climate change caused disasters. War had not went away, but resistance to it did.
Plus, pop culture (the thing most of the nostalgia is directed to - the eternal “It’s Christmas 1996 2013 and my parents got me a Nintendo 64 the new Call of Duty” of obnoxious liberals) sucked ass.
I was 11 in 2010, but I still hated it. Who cares that I had a PSP when I lived in Southern Europe during Schäuble’s reign of terror?
I remember using rainwater to flush the toilet, because we could barely afford food the month. We love the european finical crisis dont we?
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Mid-20’s in 2010 comrade. I had to deliver pizza after graduating college, living at home with my parents. They charged me rent (kind of insane), but I managed to get a PS3 at a close-out sale from Circuit City. Even if the generation was cursed by Brown graphics, there were some very fun games – most of all M A G, which still hasn’t been topped for a military shooter.
Still, it’s not like it was a great time, but I’m starting to realize there were never great times in my life and that’s the way forwards.
You’re right comrade, nostalgia is reactionary. I will submit myself to re-education immediately :P
Honestly tho, my parents are labor aristocrats who made it through the recession mostly alright or they hid it well I am not sure. Its no wonder I’m nostalgic for a time when I did not have to worry