The 90s were awful. Everyone cool died from AIDS or crack or heroin, globalization forced capitalism into every corner of the globe, Walmart turned every Main St into a boarded up ghost town, the prison industrial complex locked up millions, first mass school shooting, etc etc
I cant emphasize this enough: If you weren't alive for it, or were too young to remember, the 1990's was the absolute peak of human existence. We were living through the golden age of the world, and had no idea how good we had it.
9/11 Felt big when it happened, but how were we to know that it was the end of the road?
The FICO credit score was introduced in 1989. The average Boomer was around 35 then, which means many of them bought their first homes and cars before an imaginary three-digit number had such a huge impact on their lives. They really did pull the ladder up behind them.
Edward Norton says Trump is far worse than Nixon
"I mean, I think Trump is worse, far worse than Nixon and McNamara"
"Trump and Hegseth are there.."
"You can actually credit Nixon and McNamara with some dimension of competence. You know terrible things were going on and they were corrupt in some ways"
"But we're now at a level of incompetence, grift, and corruption that is unprecedented in the history of this country"
The scary thing here is that IMAX can't build any more new projectors. (They apparently don't have a complete set of the engineering blueprints, most of the engineers who designed them have retired or passed away, and the parts supply chains have long since dried up.) So the goal for the foreseeable future is to upgrade and keep all the existing projectors running for as long as they can.
The death of Saturday morning cartoons was the day childhood officially ended. Streaming gave kids unlimited choices, but it also took away the excitement of waiting all week for your favorite show.
A stable job and a predictable income may look depressing from the outside, but for millions of people, this is security, dignity, and peace of mind. People who have never lived with financial uncertainty often underestimate the value of an ordinary life.