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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am also in my 40s and grew up in the U.S., and perhaps current times feel more turbulent because we happened to grow up during a "lull" in major societal events.  It seems to me that the 70s-90s were relatively "quiet" (and I'm talking your average US based person, of course it's different in other parts of the world) -- in that to me the 1990s did not feel so drastically different from 1980 or 1975.  Not in the way that the 1960s were a time of huge change or WWII.  I'd say the past decade has been a time of big change -- the time when internet and social media really changed how we interacted with each other as a society, Trump and polarization and Covid.

So in sum, we were just lucky to grow up in a slower time, and that's why it feels like things are moving faster now. [/quote]

I'm in my mid-40s and I think you are on to something. Basically it did all feel like a "lull"--late 70s though early aughts kind of felt, well not all the same, but like we were progressing in a slow, manageable, and understandable way. The Regan revolution had basically already happened before I was politically cognizant, the cold war was more of a memory than a real thing in the 80s-90s even as the wall came down, we were at peace (and that was all my generation knew), and even the rise of the computer, while revolutionary in a operational/technical way, really did not radically transform our everyday lives in the way the development of the internet/smart phone/social media has.[/quote]

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