Spoken like a millennial ;)
The 90s were awesome but I've heard from Gen Xers that the 80s was like the start of an awesome party and the 90s was a continuation of that party albeit later in the night.
Still, we can all agree America died on 9/11.
Still, we can all agree America died on 9/11.
The 90s was a great time in America because, for us, it was immensely peaceful, prosperous, and hopeful.
I don't generally subscribe to sweeping generalizations about eras being overall good or bad in the absence of data though. I'm not sure any decade of my life has been better or worse in any way that I could point to general societal trends (industry or major sector trends are different).
The question is - which is the funnest time? The most interesting?
The 1980s. I've been around from the 1970s to 2023. Easily 1980s were the best. Maybe they were not if you lived out in the middle of Nebraska in a town of 200 people, but in that case, no decade is great. Options are limited. You watch the grass grow, or you watch the paint dry.
I was very young in the 1960s, but I always thought that the women of the late 1960s were the most attractive. More natural, more open. Starting in the 1980s, very, very slowly, women became more and more closed off, building shells around themselves. Now they are hard beetle carapaces. Guys pretty much have stayed the same. I've had many work interactions with people in their late teens to mid 20s, where I have been by far the oldest. We get along great, but that's what I've noticed. But like any era, there are sweet people, too. It's just the proportions have changed.