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yeah, the question wasn't if, it was when. now it's back to if.

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends really demonstrated this very nicely I think.

There was perhaps a naivete around social progress then because economic needs were better met across the board (not for everyone, but on average). The presumption was that social progress would be linear. I was young then so I didn't know that economic hardship could undo social progress with a snap of the fingers.

Nobody was there to police you for words or anything else you did.

On cue, i'd like to correct you on this.

After my fellow goth friend alvin was seen wearing a skirt on the weekend, our high school paid a christian youth group to lecture our entire grade. Their leader said they used to believe they were real actual vampires, but when his friend came home wearing a skirt, that's when he knew they'd gone too far and turned to jesus.

The satanic panic was also still going strong - i played d&d in the 90s.

People have always been trying to police others for some bullshit. It's easier online, but we got it done plenty before that.

I think that's only one shard of a bigger picture. And it wasn't woke, it was political correctness

The 90's were pretty PC if you lived in a diverse area. LGBT was handled a little... Awkwardly, but in general things were pretty live and let live, people started adjusting to different cultures

Those areas were the first to colonize the Internet, because they were places with people and money.

That's where the PC came from, when all the racist backwaters connected to the diverse cultural centers, and people were like "holy fuck, how can people be this racist?"

It started an effort to scrub out racism everywhere, where these already generally tolerant people panicked at the thought of being seen as a bigot

It was misguided from the beginning, it made all the public shaming superficial and based on word choice. It didn't shame the racism like it should have

Counter point, the apple was social media.

Anonymous forums that had a barrier to entry of needing to be tech savvy worked really really well.

It was the dumbing down of software this did us in.

I do often like to think the world would be on a better trajectory if we did the internet and social media differently to jow and actually have done it. Tech is so dystopian nowadays. (And hey, I suppose that's why we're all here)

There are other bad things that happened independently of the internet - certain wars and crises - but how people respond to these things and how they treat & see one another would be fundamentally different. It's hard not to look back at the 90s and pre-2010 as utopian. (Maybe that's just a zoomer thing.)

As a slightly tired example: I

https://youtu.be/U4hShMEk1Ew

The 1990s?

I support this message. Just know Warframe is MMO-like, having similar grinds and mechanics, but it's up to 4 person co-op based, and no raiding. The game play is fast paced, ADHD-like, but the lore and story requires you to slow down and soak it in. The deeper you look into the lore, the more rewarding it can be, if you like doing that. You can play the game solo 100% and take your time, but some parts are better in groups. The game is very easy to play, but there are a lot of mechanics to learn, and I don't recommend build guides anymore because they could make the game too easy and boring for new players. Use the offical warframe.wiki, not the outdated fandom one. It's p2w (hot take in the community), but you can freely grind for everything, and the devs are very generous with the grind, listening to feedback and adjusting.

no single person can do it. we can however, let's do it together

Woke with a sprinkling of cocaine, got it.

if the us were a socialist/communist country from the great depression, the 70s would've been woke. seriously!

I was just gonna say, I moved into Portland a few months ago, and it really is woke-90s here. And that's something I say lovingly.

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so... you weren't at local shows in the 90s?