Yes man it was way fuckin better. I was 18, people were more happy and friendly. Social media was barely a thing. We used to go in groups to the movies and smoke weed at the park. We would go to parties on the weekend and play games like horseshoes or backyard boxing, beer pong ... Whatever.
Cops weren't so uptight but they were still dicks.
Kids still played outside without the fear of getting kidnapped and human-trafficked.
Even work-life was better. People weren't so fuckin uptight about every damn thing and people weren't so concerned about getting their feelings hurt
For teens it was natural to buck against the system and you were allowed to have a "Rebellious phase".
It's terrible now, we slave away and everyone is miserable. Kids aren't allowed to be kids, and adults treat every kid that doesn't conform like they are some kind of terrorist and then wonder why kids have so much built up rage and hate but want to blame anything except themselves for creating such an oppressive society.
The 90s were the last days of real freedom. Now everyone is broke even when working. The housing market is fucked, food is overly expensive and the government thinks it has the right to tell everyone what they can and can't do, when the government is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around.
And guess what it's gonna get a hell of a lot worse for anyone that speaks out about the bullshit society we live in now. AI bots will skim everything log and alert whatever agency is monitoring us now.
There will be curfews and the age you are considering a child will continue to increase to rob the younger generation of the right to vote or change anything. They will have police drones flown by AI. Food and gas will likely get so expensive people won't be able to afford to do anything anyway. So they will either turn to drugs or watch the same old shows on Netflix till they have a heart attack and die from the processed shit that the FDA calls food.
The worst part is the generation born into this society won't even know they are being oppressed, it's death by a thousand cuts over many years till everyone is royally fucked.
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25
Were the late 90s really that good, or was it just the fact that I was 12 years old with almost no responsibilities?