We might be the last generation with a largely shared monoculture. I don’t know if that is better or worse, but the future will be different.
People still went out trick or treating, people still watched tv with commercials which I think made us slow down and talk about things more while we waited for the commercials to end. I love Netflix and chill as much as anybody else and I'm obsessed with AI but as I get older nostalgia hits harder and harder.
I'm not certain I love stranger things for the story or just the nostalgia it brings. Probably both, but I'll watch and probably enjoy anything set in the 80s, or 90s. There seemed to be a lot less political polarity and hatred between the left and right too. that was nice.