Why is it so hard to appreciate the decade/era we're in?

[Oliverlogan263]

I apologize for this stupid question, but it seems like whenever I'm and others are in the current decade, people will complain about a current trend or something in the news. I've already said enough in my 2000s thread such as 9/11 and even the emo music, so I won't dwell on that.

That being said, I can definitely see how people would hate 2020 since most of the year we spend inside because of a pandemic. However, that was gone by early to mid 2021. Now, you see people want to go back to the 2000s instead of appreciate the current decade. I can't say this decade is worse than the 2000s though since it's not over, but I'm one of the few people who prefers the 2010s over the 2000s aside from music and TV shows.

[petitedollbabee]

Personally, I find it hard to appreciate the present, in terms of what’s going on in the world. There’s crisis everywhere. The planet is dying, people are being slaughtered all the time (what’s going on with Palestine at the moment for example), there’s so much financial struggle - no one in our generation is going to afford a house unless they’re a millionaire & so many people can’t afford to have kids these days so the population is going down faster than it’s increasing in some countries, people are rapidly becoming disabled and struggling to maintain quality of life due to illnesses like repeated exposure to covid (long covid can fuck you up!).


That’s not to say there’s no positives to balance out the negatives, but in my eyes there’s more negative than positive these days when you look at the world as a whole rather than your own specific country.

[strateguy632]

your question is hard to understand, like the absence of jets burning buildings is something to appreciate? it should be that way.

point out something good, we take for granted... you didn't

instead of good we hav outrageous government spending inflation trouble buying groceries...

some people feel compassion for war or... say they do for whatever political agenda. out era is awful n biden made things horrible all around.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Because since the pandemic people have turned mean and selfish, where I live neighbors are backstabbers.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for MHO :)

[DrPepper12]

You can only really appreciate an era from a point of distance and reflection. For me that was the 80s. Really didn't appreciate how good we had it cuz it was just "the present".

[ICanSmellTheCosmos]

Considering that more people around the globe now die from obesity-related complications than starvation, I'd say that we live in a pretty good era. And we don't really experience mass disease outbreaks that kill 1/3 - 1/2 of the population in a decade either.

People don't know how good most of them have it now...

[FunkyMonkee]

Mostly, just because it ducks large rubber donkey donagles.

[FunkyMonkee]

*SUCKS!!