The '00s - a lost decade or what?

[RandyS]

I hated this decade. My mom died towards the beginning, and I have yet to get over it. My brother and I no longer speak (He's a drunk and I got tired of dealing with it, and the verbal abuse he always aimed my way), but I still love him and regret they way things turned out between us. I've fought cerebral palsy all my life, but my pyshical endurance took a huge downturn in the last few years, making it harder to get through the day than it used to be. It hasn't been all bad though. If it wasn't for the support of my girlfriend and some good friends, this decade would have been a complete loss.

I am about to begin my forties. Here's hoping they go better than my thirties did.

 

[The Castellan]

I don't think "top rate" movies and television shows from the 2000s were considerably worse than anything in the 1990s (much of which blended into each other anyway), and the 1990s (or 80s) were not exactly free from crap anyway (as the Nostalgia Critic can attest to).

And shitty Turbo Capitalism (the "free" market) has been carving a path of destruction through the Anglo-American sphere since perhaps the late 1970s, only that in this decade it was the middle class households and the huge banks who have been badly affected, and not some crappy Midwest town nobody cared about when their local Mattel factory was packed up and shipped to China in the early 1990s.

Gotta love Reagonomics....and then the later Bushonomics did not help, either.


And here's a new trend I've seen in films and TV lately....talking in deep whispers.....for anything....to me, that's a sign that the person can't act. So they just whisper or talk really low and quiet, in the hopes no one notices.

 

[TedShatner10]

Gotta love Reagonomics....and then the later Bushonomics did not help, either.

On a related note I'm currently reading Deer Hunting With Jesus, which makes for uncomfortable reading.

And the trouble with US television stations like CBS and NBC, with the growing spate of big budget shows being shitcanned the result of what the network suits wanting big results on a TV series NOW rather than in 18 months to three years.

 

[Joshua Howard]

For me, this is a decade which I am happy to wave goodbye to. It represented for me a rather tasteless childhood and isolated teenage years, laced with a lifestyle advocating various types of religious extremism.

Abroad, it represented 9/11 and the following era of Wars, and the decline of the golden era of computer gaming.

This is a great time to hit reset and look at the next ten years through the eyes of progress instead of using the last ten as a measuring stick. Granted, they were not all bad. Nevertheless, in many ways they were not exactly roaring success either.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

It's been the worst decade since last decade...