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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

All very true. I have said this often in thinking back to the 90's - we didn't know how good we had it. Yes, there was a recession, but overall we watched the Berlin Wall/collapse of the Soviet Union on live TV, we witnessed expanded opportunities for women, climate change was something you heard about every once in awhile, we had no endless wars based on terrorist threats that are still alive and well. Overall it was a very hopeful time. [/quote]

I think we don't remember the 90s very well.

We had the Persian Gulf Wars, Bosnia, Somalia, and the Rwanda Genocide. I mean, really really nasty stuff. And this is all that I can remember without Google. I'm 45.[/quote]

I’m 47. I relate to all of us. At the same time, I’m gay. I did not envision that I could have a normal, boring family, be legally married, and have it be non-issue in my everyday life. So it’s not all bad. But it is sometimes dizzying, and I’m constantly struck by how much of my childhood is now entirely obsolete. More than that, I have always been an “old soul” — these days does anyone even know who Fred Astaire was?! Janis Joplin? The Marx Bros? There’s so much media and so many of my touchstones seem so distant. [/quote]

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