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by busyant
1541 days ago
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> I remember always being optimistic about the future. Now I'm not so sure. 1968 here... I was somewhat pessimistic about the world throughout most of the '80s, primarily because of the cold war, Libya, etc. But when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and during the subsequent years in the 1990s, when it felt like Russia was becoming a democracy (in combination with the explosion of the WWW), I became optimistic about society. I look back on my optimism and it makes me feel naive. :-( |
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Post the wall coming down there was a sense of optimism and then came the breakup of Yugoslavia with ethnic cleansing and the siege of Sarajevo. In the same time period - the Rwandan genocide.
So, yes the never-ending nuclear fear mongering (not saying the threat wasn't/isn't real - it is) gave way to a small window of time that looked promising.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose