I thought this was pretty good for the Enquirer!

 

 

A decade of disruption

'May you live in interesting times' is a curse that came true

 

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091225/EDIT03/912270303/

2009 does not end a decade, and 2010 does not begin one. Only technical geeks begin enumerating things with zero.

 

2010 will be the last year of this decade, and 2011 will be the first year of the next one.

I don't know why we associate cultural eras with decades anyway. I remember the late '90s being a lot different than the early '90s.

^which brings up a larger discussion of when these cultural eras begin and end...are they single events or a tidal change? 

 

I have always thought that music and fashion are huge leading indicators of social changes.

 

for one, i remember 1992 being a year in which popular culture seemed to change overnight (music, politics, economy, etc. all changed that year).  I don't really see anything like this in the 00's.

^which brings up a larger discussion of when these cultural eras begin and end...are they single events or a tidal change?

 

I have always thought that music and fashion are huge leading indicators of social changes.

 

for one, i remember 1992 being a year in which popular culture seemed to change overnight (music, politics, economy, etc. all changed that year). I don't really see anything like this in the 00's.

 

I completely know what you mean. I was really young in '92 but I still remember that.

^which brings up a larger discussion of when these cultural eras begin and end...are they single events or a tidal change? 

 

I have always thought that music and fashion are huge leading indicators of social changes.

 

for one, i remember 1992 being a year in which popular culture seemed to change overnight (music, politics, economy, etc. all changed that year).  I don't really see anything like this in the 00's.

 

I completely know what you mean. I was really young in '92 but I still remember that.

alright, I admit this is mainly a matter of being old and not "getting it," but just how did "culture... change overnight" in 1992??  :wtf:  As far as I know no one talks about '92 the same way they do about 1968, for example,  or the 60's in general. Would someone provide some examples!

^which brings up a larger discussion of when these cultural eras begin and end...are they single events or a tidal change?

 

I have always thought that music and fashion are huge leading indicators of social changes.

 

for one, i remember 1992 being a year in which popular culture seemed to change overnight (music, politics, economy, etc. all changed that year). I don't really see anything like this in the 00's.

 

I completely know what you mean. I was really young in '92 but I still remember that.

alright, I admit this is mainly a matter of being old and not "getting it," but just how did "culture... change overnight" in 1992?? :wtf: As far as I know no one talks about '92 the same way they do about 1968, for example, or the 60's in general. Would someone provide some examples!

 

1992 brought us Bill Clinton in office (good or bad) and the Rodney King saga.  But I think the "culture" change element came mostly from the introduction to the maintstream of alternative rock music.  Think Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

In the 80s, there were movies about nerds with nerd protagonists... but they were portrayed as losers fighting a hopeless uphill struggle against the social order.  I think what happened in the early 90s is the nerds officially took control. 

 

This past decade has been the first in which there was no question that nerds rule.  We're now, of course, seeing significant anti-nerd backlash.  Ogre and the Alpha Betas still have quite a following, and their pep-rally attitude of might-makes-right will always bring comfort to some folks.

^which brings up a larger discussion of when these cultural eras begin and end...are they single events or a tidal change? 

 

I have always thought that music and fashion are huge leading indicators of social changes.

 

for one, i remember 1992 being a year in which popular culture seemed to change overnight (music, politics, economy, etc. all changed that year).  I don't really see anything like this in the 00's.

 

I completely know what you mean. I was really young in '92 but I still remember that.

 

Honey, you're still young.  "when I was really young..."  ::)  Chile boo!

 

 

    Computers and electronics changed a lot of things. 1992 seems to be about the time when computers and electronics hit the mainstream.

 

 

   

I don't know about 1992 exactly.  I didn't even start to get into the world of technology until the fall of 1993, when I enrolled in my highschool's CAD vocational program.  (this is not to say that I disagree with 1992, just to say that I wasn't "in the loop" until 1993)

 

I remember in either 1993 or 94 when CNET first aired a TV show early on Saturday mornings.  It was the first time I remember seeing web addresses on TV.  The hosts made a big deal about being able to go online and see content that related to what they were talking about on TV.  I was totally clueless about the internet at the time, and the whole "http://www..." looked very strange to me.  By the end of that decade, websites were everywhere on TV.

^which brings up a larger discussion of when these cultural eras begin and end...are they single events or a tidal change?

 

I have always thought that music and fashion are huge leading indicators of social changes.

 

for one, i remember 1992 being a year in which popular culture seemed to change overnight (music, politics, economy, etc. all changed that year). I don't really see anything like this in the 00's.

 

I completely know what you mean. I was really young in '92 but I still remember that.

alright, I admit this is mainly a matter of being old and not "getting it," but just how did "culture... change overnight" in 1992?? :wtf: As far as I know no one talks about '92 the same way they do about 1968, for example, or the 60's in general. Would someone provide some examples!

 

1992 brought us Bill Clinton in office (good or bad) and the Rodney King saga. But I think the "culture" change element came mostly from the introduction to the maintstream of alternative rock music. Think Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

 

And you listed quite a bit of what I didn't but had in mind.  As far as saying 1992 was the year...understand that that was the point I was trying to make...cultural change is always a process and is not confined to heuristic days of the calendar.  However, you can definitely say that some changes happened quicker than others and that span from 1991 to 1993 really changed alot of things.

 

For 9/11...oh yeah! That was a big deal.

Gotta hunch this credit bust thingy that is still unfolding before our eyes might end up being as big if not bigger than 911!  The two incidents will go down in history as mega events for the decade though.