Over the last say 150 years what was the best/favorite decade. Please provide reasoning for your choice. Yes they all have good and bad parts, please don’t let this devolve into telling people how they are wrong
Over the last say 150 years what was the best/favorite decade. Please provide reasoning for your choice. Yes they all have good and bad parts, please don’t let this devolve into telling people how they are wrong
I’m nostalgic for 60s america, a life I never lived. I was born this century and have lived in pakistan/ qatar for the entirety of my life. But have consumed so much american media which is nostalgic for the era and have heard and seen the romantacization of the decade so strongly that it feels like the time to be alive.
If you were alive in 1960s America, you would have seen no seat belts, significantly lower life expectancy, children still dying to smallpox and polio, and if you are ethnically from the Middle East; everyone in America would have hated you. Race riots were a massive thing in the 60s, police brutality was rampant against people of color. Even the FBI was trying to suppress race progress.
You have presidents for decades trying to create racist drug politics to entrap only non-white non-affluent people into cyclical prison systems.
You have so much hidden then, that happens today, but it was both hidden and far far greater.
The ideal doesn’t exist at all and more so for someone like yourself.
For all matters of practicality the current decade is probably the right answer. With choosimg your favorite year or decade of the past I only think of the positives or the ideas and conversations of the era, especially the arts. Because it’s not like op is gonna help me time travel. It’s just about the preffered aesthetics
Plenty of towns in America had Middle Eastern enclaves.