Are the 2020s going to be considered historically iconic?

[Oliverlogan263]

Whenever people talk about how we are living in historical or unprecedented times, I always kind of roll my eyes, as it strikes me as a sort of generational narcissism, but I understand where they are coming from with the claim. 2020's thus far can be defined by political turmoil, war, culture wars/cultural upheaval, the rise of AI (although we are yet to see how far that will go), and the pandemic. This all seems big, but is it really? By comparison, the 2010s have a similar identity and are arguably the starting point of a lot of what we are still experiencing. The 2000s, obviously 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the financial crash. I think you could make a case that the 1990s were fairly uneventful after the collapse of the Soviet Union (end of history and all that), but then going back further, every decade was also pretty eventful, so are the 2020s actually special?

Are the 2020s really as historic and iconic as many people seem to think? Or is society's consciousness just very self-obsessed at the moment and used to not much actually happening? Either way, there are still five more years to prove this either way.

Yes

No

[TheRealPepperPotts]

The main event that will likely stand out the most for the 2020's is COVID-19. That is going to be the subject of college essays for many years, analyzing how it was handled, what went wrong/right, the economic and social consequences of the response, etc. I think COVID-19 has had the greatest historical impact for this particular decade, at least so far.

I do mostly agree, though. There's a self-importance with it that has gotten old, like we've never had anything happen before in this country. I think the difference is that we are more connected than ever before with events, but less connected with relationships. It can give the impression that life is much harder or that we are worse off, since we have less of a connection to local communities, while at the same time becoming increasingly aware of the strains of a global community.

[Simslover92]

We're officially half way done with this decade and the only thing that happened that was of great significance was the pandemic in 2020. But beyond that nothing great has happened. No flying cars, no alien discovery (well not to the public anyways), no humanoids for sale, no second coming. It's just been more of the same.

[strateguy632]

Yes!

I believe people will remember the unprecedented emphasis on diversity, including lectures at jobs.

and hiring based on diversity quotas that even saved a reserved spot for a minority to be vice president... who turned out to be rotten instead of a responsible person of color! Diversity doesn't work.

Disclaimer i respect the pilots in the minority flying fighter squadron, during ww2, and the infantry of color bravely battled the south, led by despicable democrats, diabolical demecrats...

but kamala was just rotten.

[Anonymous]

Maybe, considering pandemic, it's possible.

[Opinion Owner]

Thanks for the MHO 👍

[electromagnetic]

The 2000s sure. The 2020s? Not in the slightest bit. We started with the pandemic, inflation, wars, recession..

[Anonymous]

The 1990s were the beginning of getting everyday people to buy in to ideas that would actually work to destroy their lives. The culmination of that has been the 2020s up until now.