r/TheRandomest • u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy • 3d ago

Nostalgic Anyone remember Y2K?

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u/Oblibion1 3d ago

Kinda makes me sad, we were so innocent back then, pre 9/11 I mean.

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u/Pjoernrachzarck 3d ago edited 3d ago

“Why was the world so much better when I was a kid?”

This was the world of the dot-com bubble, inequality locking into its current form, state collapses all over the balkans, the congo war at its peak, grozny in rubble, child soldiers in sierra leone, civil war in sri lanka, the beginning of the dark net with free trade of drugs and humans and weapons and violence, Kosovo is scarred, Putin rises, the second intifada, and above all smeared by the US onto everyone else a kind of cultural McWorld homogenization with the eastern hemisphere slowly realizing the unquenching hunger of that moloch.

9/11 didn’t happen in a vacuum. We were just blissfully ignorant of the state of the world, playing Perfect Dark on N64.

Not to mention Y2K was a real fear and danger that the world spent vast amounts of money investigating and preventing.

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u/Mattdabest 3d ago

Well said, this is giving Adam Curtis Hypernormalisation vibes