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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am in my late 40s and I have noticed in the past year a growing sense of feeling like every single aspect of the world has changed so drastically that it's hard to integrate all of it into a somewhat coherent understanding of the world.   Do you relate? Don't relate?

In the early 2000s, I did not feel like the technological changes and national/world events taking place were shattering my basic assumptions about how the world works.  I felt like I could loosely anticipate the trajectory of my life over the next five to ten years.  I do not know if this is a natural part of aging or if I am lacking perspective of how this chaotic time fits with history.  My parents were born in the late 1940s and I don't know that by the 1980s (their 40s) the world looked so drastically different.

I look back at the 1990s and it all seemed so much....quieter and predictable, but I was an adolescent.

My question is---do you think the world changed faster and more drastically from 2000-2021 than it did from 1980-2000, 1960-1980, 1940-1960....or is it just the effect of being in mid-life? [/quote]

I'm not sure anyone anticipated the impact of social media.

I do agree the 90's were kind of Gen X's golden age. I was in my 20's and look back now and think we had no idea how good we had it.

The current political climate on the right has been the biggest shock to me, to include people I have known for 20 or 30 years embracing what has happened with the Republican party totally unapologetically. Maybe I was naive, but that was one I didn't see coming.[/quote]

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