The remover of obstacles
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a 90’s kid? don’t you mean sad adult?
70,000 people have reblogged this but no one is trying to defend themselves
There is nothing to defend
#i read a post once that described 90s kids as the generation of nostalgia #because so much technological advancement happened in such a rapid timeframe when we were growing up #that we can clearly remember having technologies that are now obsolete #like going from a corded hugeass phone to a small computer in your pocket just within our formative years is a major thing #and it sparks a nostalgia for our seemly ‘simpler’ childhoods #because so much rapid development makes it seem like it was a lot longer ago than it actually was (x)
This is the most solid explanation of our decade I have ever heard.
Oh my god
Just to add onto that, our childhood wasn’t even technology based. We grew up knowing of chalk, skateboards, jump rope, street hockey, playgrounds, butterfly collecting, etc. Slowly technology took over our lives and now there are hardly kids playing outside in the summer. We can clearly remember our childhood as it was and now we can see the clear line between it. We were the generation right smack in the middle of it all. Our parents were of non-tech and our children/young siblings will be all tech.
Not to mention, ours was the last generation that grew up with all those bright promises of “work hard, go to college, and you’ll have a successful life,” only to find those hopes abruptly dashed when the housing bubble burst. Milliennials have grown up expecting that disappointment, because for them, the problem has been there since Day One.
So 90s kids aren’t just nostalgic…we’re BITTER. And we ache for those days when we could still think that the world was boundless and full of the opportunities we were promised since the first day of kindergarten.
Every time someone adds to this i have to reblog.
This though.
And of course we’re the generation that saw horror unfolding live in real time.
If you’re a 90s kid, you witnessed:
-the Collapse of the WTC on live tv, which meant you saw hundreds of people choose a “cleaner death” by jumping from burning towers, watched thousands die as the towers collapsed on them, and can listen to Kevin Cosgrove’s death screams on YOUTUBE
-the Attack on the Pentagon
-United Flight 93, where flying the plane into the dirt was the only good option
-the War on Terror, now on every channel all the time
-the Anthrax Attacks
-The London Bombing
-The Indian Ocean Tsunami
-the uncountable number of terror attacks worldwide, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Belgium, Paris, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, and so many more I can hardly conceptualize them
-Hurricane Katrina and seeing the bodies of the deceased floating in the drowned streets in August heat while Bush vacationed at his fucking ranch
-Robert Picton
Paedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church
-the rise of the Evangelical Right-Wing
-school shootings like Columbine, Dawson, Sandy Hook, and about a hundred more
-mass shootings like Aurora
-the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Meltdown
-the Israel/Palestine conflict(s)
-global warming and the Sixth Mass Extinction
-mass famine in sub-Saharan Africa
-Daesh
-Syria
-the Global Financial Crisis
-the PATRIOT Act
-WikiLeaks, NSA wire taps
-Guantanamo Bay
-the Balkan War(s)
-Rwanda Genocide
…we’re nostalgic for “the good old days” for a reason.
Holy shit. I’ve never seen all of the terrible things that have happened since I turned 11 (just old enough to be aware of it all) listed together in one place before. No wonder I’m so angry all the time. Oh my god.
The scary thing is, those are just the ones a beige girl from the first world could rattle off the top of her head.
Imagine all the ones I MISSED.
You could make a decent argument that our entire generation shows symptoms of trauma.
Wow. It makes a lot of sense.
I’m not sure if I should tag this for all of the things AIA listed, and if so, what, so if anyone has a suggestion hmu.
#bad shit happens to good people?
Other than that, I didn’t provide links for a reason. But because we live in a hyper-connected planet, things that would otherwise have been localized or ignored are now readily accessible.
Our parents never had to deal with Bataclan survivors live-tweeting, and they DEFINITELY never had to deal with first-person video of mass shootings/natural disasters/political strife from fifteen different angles in high-definition iPhone audio/visual.
The 90s kids are the first people in history to have what essentially amounts to a collective consciousness via cloud computing. I’d like to believe that an attack on one is an attack on all–and indeed, many of us do have that mentality–but between the criseses, we’re all holding our collective breath to see what goes wrong next.
No wonder we’re neurotic.
The thing is, our generation is not the only one to live through war, tragedy, corrupt politicians, and hurricanes. Throughout history these things occur in abundance.
But we are the most exposed to all of it. We are, if not more informed, more aware of all the bad news that happens everywhere in the world. Bad news ins the only news, and it bombards us at every turn. Our phones give us news updates every time we check a text. The people we follow on tumblr, twitter, and facebook are all posting about the attack/hurricane/shooting/scandal in Nigeria/Japan/the US/Iceland/Germany/Croatia/Israel. Before 90s kids you just didn’t hear about what happened on the other side of world- or I should say it was easy not to hear about it. Like @appropriately-inappropriate said, older generations didn’t have nearly as graphic visuals to go with the daily news. We are forced to virtually experience the tragedy ourselves (I don’t mean to make light of those that did experience a horrible tragedy firsthand, just emphasize how traumatic the news can be by presenting footage, using triggering language, etc).
My aunt, who is at the very very tail end of the baby boomer generation, told me a few stories about how careless she was when she was younger, how she could strike up a conversation with a total stranger, go to parties or travel with only vague plans, without cell phones or anything and stay at someone’s house who she met that one time 2 years ago. She wondered why people don’t seem to just strike up conversations with strangers as much anymore. She wasn’t bitterly going for the whole “damn kids with their cell phones” thing, but I could tell she wondered if that played a part.
My jaw was practically on the floor after some of her stories. It sounded not just careless but extremely dangerous to the point where I wondered how she had lived through her 20s. But to her, at the time, it was merely “a little risky”. There were just as many murderers, kidnappers, ‘bad people’ back then as there is now. That kind of thing doesn’t really change much, in terms of percentage of the population. The difference is the stories get spread so much farther. I’ve seen countless missing child reports from across the country, literally hundreds of miles away. I don’t live in Canada, but I know populations of aboriginal people in Canada are experiencing a mass suicide crisis. I have never been to South Africa, but I know they are suffering an energy crisis. I live with this information, we all live with the information that bad things are happening right now and there is nothing we can do about most of those bad things, because they are happening somewhere else. But we are forced to watch them happen. It’s. It’s really cruel, actually.
Bad things happen, but our generation has had that idea beaten into our heads every second of every day growing up. The world has always been burning, but no generation has had to watch and listen to the world burn like we have, with our eyelids taped and our hands tied so we can’t cover our eyes or plug our ears.
