1990…er…2000…um…2010…wait…
Posted By KJ / 26th January 2012
Interesting article on Vanity Fair about the changes we’ve gone through as a society since the early 90′s/late 80′s. Or rather the lack of changes we’ve gone through as a society since the early 90′s/late 80′s.
The author does point out a few things that have changed. The internet really wasn’t around then in the form that it is now, Television was still mostly the network swill and women dressed a little more demurely, one didn’t see the amount of breasts that one sees now days. Not that it’s a bad thing, far from it, just sayin…
Why the lack of changes? According to the author,
“Why is this happening? In some large measure, I think, it’s an unconscious collective reaction to all the profound nonstop newness we’re experiencing on the tech and geopolitical and economic fronts. People have a limited capacity to embrace flux and strangeness and dissatisfaction, and right now we’re maxed out. So as the Web and artificially intelligent smartphones and the rise of China and 9/11 and the winners-take-all American economy and the Great Recession disrupt and transform our lives and hopes and dreams, we are clinging as never before to the familiar in matters of style and culture.”
I agree and frankly, I d0n’t have a problem with this. Change requires, well, change. I don’t know about you but I’ve got enough going on in my life that has forced change and I really want to cling to something safe and something that I know.
But that’s just me…