The '10's will be to the '00's as the '80's were to the '70's.

[Writer]

Culturally, however, not politically. I think the nation is swinging left politically, but I think stylistically and culturally it will be more superficial, less intellectual, and rather banal. There will be mindless exercises of unsubstantial online activism coupled with an incongruent drive for consumerism and aggressive career pursuits. We will see a lot of vocalized liberal beliefs but little real action.

What do you think? :popcorn:

((This prophetic statement has been brought to you by Wellbutrin SR. Wellbutrin SR, keeping writers sane since 1994.))

[lost-in-nj]

1. Thats a bunch of pretty words there

Ms. Writer.....

but what the HELL do they all mean!!???


hey... Wellbutrin rocks....



:hi:

lost

[JVS]

2. "less intellectual, and rather banal" compared to now?

and since when were the 70s known for highbrow culture? I must have missed that episode of the gong show

[Writer]

5. Relatively, yes. n/t

[DarkTirade]

3. I see it as the other end of things...

the '90s were like the 70s, where people were willing to wear crappy clothes and grow their hair long. The '00s are the ones that are more like the 80s. Ostentatious is coming back. The stupid Flock of Seagulls haircut is coming back. The more and better things you own the more important you are. Music started sucking a whole lot. The Bush/Reagan style 'I got what's mine and I don't want to give it up for nobody' neo-conservative morons who are a danger to themselves and those around them thing came back into bloom in the '00s.
Hopefully the '10s will be more like the '90s and '70s.

[Swede]

4. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity

[SteppingRazor]

6. Culturally, every decade worships the decade that happened two decades ago.

That's why you had Happy Days in the 70s, the second British Invasion in the 80s, bell bottoms came back in style briefly in the 90s, and there are "80s nights" at nightclubs across the country here in the 2000s.


At least, that's my theory.

[Writer]

8. That's an interesting theory.

[SteppingRazor]

10. If we draw my theory out, then, the 2010s will be like the 1990s...

the glossy pop (80s: NKOTB, Michael Jackson, 2000s: Britney Spears, similar dance pop) will be replaced on the Billboard charts by more-visceral, urgent sounds (90s: Nirvana and the like, 2010s: ?).

A Republican (80s: Bush, 2000s: Bush) will be replaced by a Democrat (90s: Clinton, 2010: ?) in the White House.

Clothing style will go from more-ostentatious to more-casual.

And so on.

[JVS]

18. Yeah Grunge and Flannels!

[Lisa]

22. I like your theory! 20 years is about the time it takes for a generation ...

.... to start having kids of its own. And the parents may start getting nostalgic for their own youth, and tell their children about an idealised time in the past.

[Malikshah]

7. Idiocracy. Not the best made film, but quite prescient.

Rent it watch it and weep.

[Writer]

9. I've seen it, and there's some definite truth to it.

[kay1864]

11. So does that mean that...

Big Hair will make a comeback?

[elaineb]

12. I think the '10's will be to the '00's as the '60's were to the 50's

I'm not sure the country can get more superficial, less intellectual, or more banal, as you describe it, than it is right now. I suppose it's possible, but I can't see it somehow. Therefore, I think American culture and intellectual life is going to get envigorated and enlivened by the coming swing to the left politically.

Have we had a revival of the 60's mindset yet? Not yet, and it's a generation later. It's TIME!

:hippie:

[semillama]

13. They will be in that...

they are both sequential.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. You mean the underground music scene will be extra awesome next decade?

Sweeeet.

[billyskank]

15. Hmmmm

and I was not thinking the noughties themselves were very notable for being intellectual or unsuperficial. :shrug:

:hi:

[Initech]

16. Consumerism couldn't possibly get any worse than it is now.

[Mojambo]

20. I'm not sure that's true. n/t

[Initech]

21. The only way I picture it getting worse:

Is if the banks of America decide to collectively buy the Federal Trade Commission and completely eliminate cash, then I could see it getting worse.

[Deja Q]

17. OMG, it's going to get WORSE?!

BTW: I'm on prozac, adderall, zyrtec, and cialis.

:hide:

[mitchum]

19. Unfortunately, the 80s have never ended,,,

we are still living in the age of materialistic apes