I dunno, in some ways it’s difficult to separate the oughts from the teens. thinking about it, the past two decades have a somewhat uniform “beige feel”. The primary difference would be that the oughts are dominated in my memory that with the establishment of the Dept. Of Homeland Security, we have laid the foundation of our downfall as a truly free country and become our own worst enemy.
The teens, well, I was married for most of that decade, so thats how I think of those years, the wedded years.
Overlaying all of that, is a feeling of ongoing social liberation, but it feels false somehow, hollow, as if it’s merely a method of pacification for the populace in general to make domination and deception by the government easier.
Colbert’s Truthiness segment was 2005 and I really think that he and his writers hit on something. At the time, I knew he was right. I had no idea it would go as far as it has gone.
Unquestionably. In 1999, I was still using dialup, and not by choice. Can’t discount the impact the internet has made. Computers finally fulfilled the promise of revolutionizing our lives .
Yes, I would say my everyday life changed most significantly from 2000-2010 vs 1980-2000, starting with the development of the Internet and affordable broadband, to iPods, to iPhones, to iPads. Professionally, digital photography took over the industry starting mainly in 2001 with the release of the Nikon D3 (though digital cameras and digital backs did exist before then–we were using Kodak digital backs on 35mm cameras back in the mid-90s.) At first, it was expensive, but by the mid-2000s, became affordable, and now I’d guess the majority (or a large minority) of people are walking around with digital cameras in their pocket (on their phones.)
It’s weird explaining to my kids how we used to have to wait for a program to come on TV and if we missed it, we missed it (or we had to remember to tape it on a VCR). If we wanted to discover music, we had to go down to the local record store or have friends with interesting tastes instead of just rabbit-holing it through Youtube or whatnot. If we wanted to consume any kind of media or information, we had to go to the library, the bookstore, the video rental store, etc. and now we have all of it at a moment’s notice. It really is incredible and it’s absolutely amazing how my life has changed from the first twenty years of it to the second twenty-ish years of it.
I beg your pardon. I’m old by any definition and I know exactly who Taylor Swift is, and what EDM music is. I don’t particularly*** care ***about either phenomenon, but that’s an entirely different matter.
It’s much easier to ignore popular culture these days. In the past, if a certain group or genre of music was big, there was no way to ignore it, but now? If it doesn’t show up on my Spotify playlist I’ve never heard of it. Same thing with TV, to a lesser degree - there are so many options and so many old shows available upon demand, that ignoring the “current” big thing is remarkably easy.
Ignoring movies is a bit harder, especially if you want to see big special-effect driven blockbusters. Therefor, I hereby declare the 2010’s the Marvel Decade.
Reality TV elimination shows just exploded throughout the 2000s and everyone was watching at least some of them. And everyone was talking about them.
We had all of these start in the 2000s:
Survivor 2000
Big Brother 2000
Amazing Race 2001
The Bachelor 2002
American Idol 2002
Project Runway 2004
The Apprentice 2004
Hell’s Kitchen(US) 2005
I’d have described the 2000s as the decade of terrorism and war- between 9/11 and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, that seems to have been the primary topic between about 2001-2010. It was also the decade when public Internet usage became commonplace.
The 2010-2019 time since then has really been threefold- it’s been the decade of social media, mobile devices and in a socio-political sense, it’s been a decade of… awareness(?) in that people are more aware of inequities and injustices than ever before, likely due to the same social media and its ability to shine light into dusty corners.
That’s a pretty good summation. I would add that there’s more disinformation now. Somewhere between 2000 and 2019 there’s been an information overload and it’s harder to discern the truth now. Maybe there’s more light, but what’s it’s showing us is more darkness. But, in many ways things are good.
Yeah, I was going to say, the 2000s onward have some of the best TV I’ve ever seen. I’m not much for movies and cinema these days, so I can’t talk about that, but the cable and TV series have just been fantastic and there’s a reason it’s called The Golden Age of Television.
I agree. That’s probably the other thing I’d say the 2010-2020 decade is notable for- the shift in… viewable entertainment(?) from the traditional TV networks and traditional cinema to a mix of cable TV channels and streaming video providers, and a shift from either the standard 20-ish episode TV season and 2 hour movies to more short-season, scripted story arc, high production value TV series like Breaking Bad, Stranger Things, etc…
That seems to me to be a huge change; we went from an era where the “real” cinematic work was being done in the feature film arena, and TV was considered a sort of also-ran, to an era where the best work is being done on TV in a different sort of format than TV has ever done before.
Or something like that… I’m not 100% sure I’m articulating what I’m trying to say well here.
That’s actually an insult to President Camacho, who was both well meaning and recognized that both intelligence and the recognition of reality were good things. Rather the opposite of the present regime.
On average, it was a 2004.5. They were greater than the 1990s but consistently lower than the 2010s.
Though if there is one thing to say about them, if you look closely at each year on its own, they were very even. It went up and down, but seven times out of eight, even.