Why did people seem so much happier, even up to the late 2000s? Columbine, 9/11, war, housing market collapse...

the squeeze was not as tight

in 10 years people are gonna be like
>yea well 2020 was kinda cool

The iPhone didn't exist.

This. Just watched pic rel with my 8 yr old the other day to mock the very idea of trannies and their clownery. I told him to watch, people will try to sell you on the idea that it's normal at some point, now you know they're all a big joke

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you and everyone who thinks like you are subhuman NPC pieces of shit. people were more brainwashed and still trusted television. people were happier because they had more money in the pocket and the television told them everything was fine, except for some terrorists in a desert

It was ok to be white

If you want to know what's wrong with the world today it's the god damned niggers and the women.

Has to suck for trannies that those two niggers pass better than they ever will

Obama.

This. Shit was just as bad back then. The only reason Op didn't notice was because he was a retarded kid

Well the people in your pic are like 37 now and fat and pregnant with a little autistic kid.

But I think the answer, besides age and demographic change and economic fuckery and overprescription of all kinds of drugs, comes down to the fact things were socially just better.

You didn't have shit like 30 year old women calling for inquisitions against 30 year old men for dating 20 year olds, you didn't have 20 year old incels trying to claim that's 'pedo', you didn't have trannies and incels in general, you had wiggers but they were just a faggy subculture instead of something that seems to envelop the non-incel zoomer population, wages were better, HR didn't exist. Everything is designed now to frustrate you.

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social media and smartphones were still in their infancy and an outright anti-white agenda wasn't being pushed yet. 2010 compared to 2020 is a night and day difference. 2000 compared to 2020 is dystopia.

The post-GFC quantitative easing period was like a mini-90s in the Western countries. Domestic inequality actually increased faster during Obama's two terms than at any point in US history. This was driven by the expansion of purely financialized (virtual) wealth, rather than productive investment a la the post-WWII era; hence, it was inevitably short-lived.

At the same time, global inequality actually decreased, largely attributable to the rise of China pulling hundreds of millions out of rural absolute poverty. Now, the China boom is wearing off and their economy is being forced into increasingly financial/speculative activity; the Belt and Road Initiative is one sense China's effort to force surplus capital to serve long-term productive /strategic goals rather than short-term speculation, which lends itself to brutal crises.
The Covid stimulus injection into financial markets was the last gasp of a dying system. We are now witnessing the contradictions borne of our elites' actions.

Dot com boom. There was opportunity, prosperity. All destroyed by the Clintons housing bill that caused the housing bubble then the crash in 2008. We've been in a recession since.

I grew up in the 90s and 2000s. Bought my first bi level house that was built in 1993 in 2001. I was 20. It cost me 92000 dollars. So ya, things were better. And people had more fun

I’d say it was 2016 honestly. Things felt really off in 2015, but there was practically radio silence as far as media goes for Obama and politics. In 2016 though, they went 110% overdrive and pushed Hillary as God’s gift to the human race. Before that point, most bluepilled NPCs, myself included, didn’t care much about politics and just wanted to play vidya and fap. That year though, we truly realized what had happened to our hobbies, media, society as a whole. We all felt like schizo’s, but we had woken up from a cooming and consooming dream of everything being okay. This is where the phrase “woke” started. It was taking the red pill. It obviously makes more sense in this case than using it for liberals, considering none of them woke up from shit as they had been screeching the same thing for years, but the phrase was overused and pushed by them in media and now it’s considered their word, which is annoying, but whatever.

The reason we’re all depressed though is because having the other side screech for a while happens every election. They lose, they complain, they make up shit, everyone gets over it after a year. 2016 was different. They complained and screamed for 4 FUCKING YEARS EVERY DAY. We were told every day through 2020 that we were sad, when we were happy. That we were angry, when we were content. That things were going downhill when everything was going well. 2016-2020 was honestly bliss. We’re still told we were unhappy then though even though literally nothing went wrong. And then in 2021, we realize we’ve lost. Truth is fiction, humor is illegal, suffering is happiness, and things are getting better when we can look at the gas prices and see with our eyes that it’s a lie. We’re all basically the only sane people around and are treated like we’re crazy. It is turning us completely depressed and demoralized and we are not a minority. We’re just disenfranchised.

I was a student in nyu back then can't speak for uk but in usa people were not happier
obama hype died down as he started to drone motherfuckers left and right
people who got fucked in 2008 still have not recovered, I remember graduate division getting record level applications and it lingered on into 2011
syria exploded and they really tried their best to get a public consent for an intervention, reading nyt circa 2012 was depressing
the whole ows and how it was hijacked and destroyed

I think you were just a kid back then thats why you think everyone was happy

This.

It's hard to imagine if you've never experienced it but they used to leave you alone.
Like, some people were into politics but the vast majority of people did not give a shit.
They just lived their lives and only noticed when taxes went up or down. That was the extent of political involvement. "Fuck your taxes" or "fuck you pay more taxes for everyone."

9/11 shook everyone into watching the news and then people started paying too much attention to talking heads.

Checked and correct.

Obama really was the Trojan horse
that Patrick Buchanan said he was.

I low-key think the world ended in December 21st 2012 or at least something happened that shifted timelines. Mind you CERN is running right now too

Good. Thanks.

It's really these two in concert. social media existed in the early 2000s but it was something you did for a while on the computer then walked away from. after smart phones became ubiquitous idiots became plugged in at all times and started comparing their lives to other people who put on a fake facade and were too stupid to tell the difference. Your online life and real life became intertwined if you couldn't control yourself. Thus came the rise of the permanently online tranny and checkmarked idiots who took control of the narrative despite functionally existing only on the internet but normies couldn't tell the difference. Overlay that on the stronger dollar versus today and you get the current situation. Remember being able to buy a house for under 100k and not being fired from a job if you called somebody a faggot? You'd be happier then too.

This is the point where I realize that latching onto a near past is pure cope. By this time technoglobalism was already picking steam. I feel saudade for the 90ies, but I acknowledge that this is likely just cope for the 80ies and before being too alien for me to grasp.
For what it's worth, it was a time of economic prosperity up until 2008, at least. Politicians didn't have the gall to sell misery as something good to the people.

The switchover happened in 2014. Its like UNO reverse card of 1994, where culture went down the toilet. Blame Social media, smartphones, Ukraine, Netflix and all streaming services.