The mid 2000's was when the shift happened. Obama being elected, Wall Street. That's when it ended. You can trace the sovl being snuffed out in films from 2007 to 2008/9.
>everything since then has been on some level to shore up an increasingly simulated version of the global economy in 2007
It worked for a bit during the late 2010s.
I'm telling you, we gotta go back in time to before july 16th, 1999 and save jfkjr so he can win the senate seat and then he would have been president in 2008. Can you imagine the world we would be loving in now with no obama and no hillary?! the matrix killed him
If the AI idea of "enslave us" is to preserve us and put us in a lovingly crafted never-ending version of 1999 then I consider that a sweet deal. Compared with the fricking shithole the modern world has become.
Pretty much. Look at the decline in society since the turn of the millennium. The class warfare. The increase in racial tensions. The prevalence of smart phones sapping away peoples attention and turning them anti social. School shootings and online scams. Economic collapses and forever wars
Shit is not going well and has not really improved. So him saying we peaked at the millennium is kind of apt
>Germany 1871-1914
It was the place to be. Shitskins feared the White Man. European powers during this time carved up the whole world to rule. The World Wars where stupid Brother War that ruined us.
Pretty much yes.
An attack like 9/11 was unimaginable for most of society. We still believed that America was invincible, especially in the wake of the Gulf War.
Still, there were some cracks showing, like in Woodstock 99. The event was a microcosm of capitalistic greed and man's devolution into beasts, given the right conditions.
>"I have a date tonight with a cutie." "Nice, bro! Good luck!" "Rest assured, this will be the sixth time I hook up with a twink from grindr, and I have become exceedingly efficient at it."
There were people who said 9/11 ended things, those like me who say 2008, others who say 2012, and now zoomers who say that 2016 or 2020 ended things for real.
The problem is that as things get worse, new generations consider how society ran for their first 15 years on earth the baseline normal for how society should be ran. As long as the economy keeps churning at an OK rate, people will begrudgingly accept things getting worse and not being as good as when they were 10, while new generations only know the worse living standards. Only an economic collapse or a nuclear holocaust could really end this for real.
and boomers argue that life was best in the 80s, literally every generation in the entire history of the world thought that everything was better when they were still young and full of possibility.
the problem was never with the world, but with people getting bitter and jaded from life.
Naw, things have gotten legitimately, statistically verifiably worse since the 2008 "crash." Everything from real wages to interpersonal relationships are completely fricked and people are openly talking about civil war for the first time in living memory.
Shit is actually fricking fricked and anyone with half a brain knows it. Even the Zoomers in my family know that shit is fricked right now.
I'd honestly love to see meal team six storm the white house. They'd probably last long enough to get arrested because the optics of shooting some lardass larpers on the white house lawn wouldn't be good.
My family and friends are literally all openly talking about it. The one I hear all the time from different people is "the only way anything is going to change is with a war." From both sides of the political spectrum too.
Maybe where you live that isn't a reality, but where I live it's absolutely something people are openly discussing. Don't be surprised when you wake up and find yourself in a war torn US at some point, assuming you live in the US.
There is seething hatred, anger, and fear, running strong through all sides in the current US political situation and literally all it needs is a spark, or a disruption to the cheap food and goods keeping us running. The moment people get desperate this country is in for a world of hurt.
>and literally all it needs is a spark, or a disruption to the cheap food and goods
What cheap foods and goods? Both sides are getting out priced and both are being aimed at each other by the oligarchy to destroy the plebes and automate everything, and use immigrant slave labor for everything else.
>Naw, things have gotten legitimately, statistically verifiably worse since the 2008 "crash." Everything from real wages to interpersonal relationships are completely fricked and people are openly talking about Civil War for the first time in living memory.
I post this anytime the subject comes up, but the West never really recovered from the 2008 crash. The "recovery" is all on paper, a result of massaged statistics and fudged numbers.
that was a great time. had been playing the tcg in the back of a toys r us with neighborhood kids and one of the worker-weebs got the japanese steelix card before anyone had a chance to play silver, showed it off to us. then let our moms buy copies of silver a couple days early for us. best gen
a guy in his 60's who was fixing my phone said he felt things peaked in 2007. he said when he was younger there was basically infinite work because no one outsourced their menial slave labor to china yet so you could work at a new job basically every day or drop your current work on a dime because you don't like the boss talked.
Humanity peaked in the period between 2000 and 2010.
We could do better, there is potential for so much more, but we have been regressing since.
I blame the fast expansion of the internet. It gave everyone, including the morons, a portal to express themselves and interfere in the bussiness of people who could've elevated us a species.
> fricking jobs and doing your everyday routine shitty things, i say frick you and die. if you got a problem with my thoughts, come tell me and ill kill you, because.........god damnit, DEAD PEOPLE DONT ARGUE!
we're just in a bad part of history and a huge lull, we're like between a shift thatll happen and shit will get perpetually better but most of you all will be dead before that happens
we're just all waiting for that time, which will be like 2040, 2050, when AI and robots start being implemented more and more. we're like in a low cost implementation phase with self check out lines, eventually you wont even check out, itll just keep track of what you put in your cart and auto charge you
most low wage jobs will be replaced by robots, most road shit will be automated, and be electric
right now, yes its far worse than 1999 era, which was god tier. the thing that started it all was 9/11 which was 2001 i believe, and when everything went to shit
Basically yeah. The biggest technological advancements have served to enable data marketing trends more than anything else. So I would say this was a soft disclosure moment.
For the past 10 years we've had thousands of these "dude the past"/"when did everything go shit" threads. They've just become the same things repeated, nothing said in these is original by now.
>Reposted "retvrn" video/image that previously went viral on Twitter/Reddit a few hours before >Bros when did it all go wrong >It was 1963 when JFK was shot >It was the 1965 immigration act >It was 1973 when Nixon took the u.s. off the gold standard >It was 1980 when Reagan fricked america >It was Y2K >It was 9/11 >It was 2004 when the last 90s holdovers ended >It was 2007 iphone and facebook >Acshulee it was 2012 mayans were right >Dude it's 2008 when the recession, Obama, CERN happened >It was 2016 when Blumpf and wokeness happened >It was 2020 with the coof and trannies >Remember what THEY took from you *shows clip of le 1987 7-eleven at Disneyworld* >You can still do those things chud >"NO ONE WAS EVER HAPPY" This is what you sound like shitlib
Close. Looking back, it was probably more like ~2004.
> Pre Cancerous Smart Phone Era
> Still fun wild west internet
> WoW
> Spider Man 2
I could also see a strong argument for 2001 (pre 9/11).
The mid 2000's was when the shift happened. Obama being elected, Wall Street. That's when it ended. You can trace the sovl being snuffed out in films from 2007 to 2008/9.
the party was over in 2008, everything since then has been on some level to shore up an increasingly simulated version of the global economy in 2007
>everything since then has been on some level to shore up an increasingly simulated version of the global economy in 2007
It worked for a bit during the late 2010s.
Yes
moron
this is just the cycle they choose they probably still experimenting what year to start the matrix in.
I think the point of inflexion was when the Simpsons intro changed to the modern version, that's when i knew at least
Yes
No, but the facade peaked.
*How bro felt after typing that*
The South Park movie was pretty good
I'm telling you, we gotta go back in time to before july 16th, 1999 and save jfkjr so he can win the senate seat and then he would have been president in 2008. Can you imagine the world we would be loving in now with no obama and no hillary?! the matrix killed him
Dumbass shouldn't have flown a plane at night with no instrument rating then
This. How do you think it would have played out?
>we'd be better off if we saved someone who won the darwin award to be potus
absolute moron
pretty close if you're American. Anytime in the era between the Soviet collapse and 9/11 could be argued as peak
in the fictional timeline, humanity would create AI in 1999 or 2000, which ended human history and made everything after "AI" history
What if the Matrix was just off by a few decades, and the AI we are building now in 2024 is what will ultimately enslave us?
What if the AI of today gets the idea and learns to enslave humanity because of the Matrix movie?
If the AI idea of "enslave us" is to preserve us and put us in a lovingly crafted never-ending version of 1999 then I consider that a sweet deal. Compared with the fricking shithole the modern world has become.
Too bad, you're getting preserved in 2023 forever.
Pretty much. Look at the decline in society since the turn of the millennium. The class warfare. The increase in racial tensions. The prevalence of smart phones sapping away peoples attention and turning them anti social. School shootings and online scams. Economic collapses and forever wars
Shit is not going well and has not really improved. So him saying we peaked at the millennium is kind of apt
>the architect was a 90's nostalgia chud
he deserved to be destroyed
Ergo
Vis-a-vis
In America's absolute hegemony 1999 was the pinnacle.
Thus
Germany 1934 to 1938.
>Germany 1871-1914
It was the place to be. Shitskins feared the White Man. European powers during this time carved up the whole world to rule. The World Wars where stupid Brother War that ruined us.
>the white man is so smart
>the white man fell due to his own stupidity
404. Intelligence not found.
come on man, hes gonna just say the israelites caused it. dont fall for something so simple
all fun and games until your crossdressing fuhrer conscripts you to die in a ditch.
>conscripts
we're talking about nazi germany not modern america
Pretty much yes.
An attack like 9/11 was unimaginable for most of society. We still believed that America was invincible, especially in the wake of the Gulf War.
Still, there were some cracks showing, like in Woodstock 99. The event was a microcosm of capitalistic greed and man's devolution into beasts, given the right conditions.
And now planes are falling apart right in the air. How about that?
Zoomers are pretty fricking moronic
>"I have a date tonight with a cutie." "Nice, bro! Good luck!" "Rest assured, this will be the sixth time I hook up with a twink from grindr, and I have become exceedingly efficient at it."
There were people who said 9/11 ended things, those like me who say 2008, others who say 2012, and now zoomers who say that 2016 or 2020 ended things for real.
The problem is that as things get worse, new generations consider how society ran for their first 15 years on earth the baseline normal for how society should be ran. As long as the economy keeps churning at an OK rate, people will begrudgingly accept things getting worse and not being as good as when they were 10, while new generations only know the worse living standards. Only an economic collapse or a nuclear holocaust could really end this for real.
and boomers argue that life was best in the 80s, literally every generation in the entire history of the world thought that everything was better when they were still young and full of possibility.
the problem was never with the world, but with people getting bitter and jaded from life.
Naw, things have gotten legitimately, statistically verifiably worse since the 2008 "crash." Everything from real wages to interpersonal relationships are completely fricked and people are openly talking about civil war for the first time in living memory.
Shit is actually fricking fricked and anyone with half a brain knows it. Even the Zoomers in my family know that shit is fricked right now.
>some guys on a tawainese origami forum are talking about civil war
shit really. well let me tell you about this bridge in london id like to sell you
boomers are fedposing on facebook under their own names,but theyre all overweight moronic and cuckolded to sports fandom and alimony payments
I'd honestly love to see meal team six storm the white house. They'd probably last long enough to get arrested because the optics of shooting some lardass larpers on the white house lawn wouldn't be good.
He's just gonna say facebook doesn't count, and then later say the same for twitter. Everything is fine.
My family and friends are literally all openly talking about it. The one I hear all the time from different people is "the only way anything is going to change is with a war." From both sides of the political spectrum too.
Maybe where you live that isn't a reality, but where I live it's absolutely something people are openly discussing. Don't be surprised when you wake up and find yourself in a war torn US at some point, assuming you live in the US.
There is seething hatred, anger, and fear, running strong through all sides in the current US political situation and literally all it needs is a spark, or a disruption to the cheap food and goods keeping us running. The moment people get desperate this country is in for a world of hurt.
>and literally all it needs is a spark, or a disruption to the cheap food and goods
What cheap foods and goods? Both sides are getting out priced and both are being aimed at each other by the oligarchy to destroy the plebes and automate everything, and use immigrant slave labor for everything else.
>Naw, things have gotten legitimately, statistically verifiably worse since the 2008 "crash." Everything from real wages to interpersonal relationships are completely fricked and people are openly talking about Civil War for the first time in living memory.
I post this anytime the subject comes up, but the West never really recovered from the 2008 crash. The "recovery" is all on paper, a result of massaged statistics and fudged numbers.
https://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on-inflation-measurement
Yes. Just after Pokemon Silver was released.
that was a great time. had been playing the tcg in the back of a toys r us with neighborhood kids and one of the worker-weebs got the japanese steelix card before anyone had a chance to play silver, showed it off to us. then let our moms buy copies of silver a couple days early for us. best gen
a guy in his 60's who was fixing my phone said he felt things peaked in 2007. he said when he was younger there was basically infinite work because no one outsourced their menial slave labor to china yet so you could work at a new job basically every day or drop your current work on a dime because you don't like the boss talked.
He was right about everything.
Humanity peaked in the period between 2000 and 2010.
We could do better, there is potential for so much more, but we have been regressing since.
I blame the fast expansion of the internet. It gave everyone, including the morons, a portal to express themselves and interfere in the bussiness of people who could've elevated us a species.
I can't get a gf and girls won't talk to me
that's why society is collapsing
Yes.
> fricking jobs and doing your everyday routine shitty things, i say frick you and die. if you got a problem with my thoughts, come tell me and ill kill you, because.........god damnit, DEAD PEOPLE DONT ARGUE!
>God DAMNIT I AM PISSED!!
Humanity peaked in 1871, particularly in the wild west.
maybe
we're just in a bad part of history and a huge lull, we're like between a shift thatll happen and shit will get perpetually better but most of you all will be dead before that happens
we're just all waiting for that time, which will be like 2040, 2050, when AI and robots start being implemented more and more. we're like in a low cost implementation phase with self check out lines, eventually you wont even check out, itll just keep track of what you put in your cart and auto charge you
most low wage jobs will be replaced by robots, most road shit will be automated, and be electric
right now, yes its far worse than 1999 era, which was god tier. the thing that started it all was 9/11 which was 2001 i believe, and when everything went to shit
it peaked in 2013.
I enjoyed 2020 idgaf
Basically yeah. The biggest technological advancements have served to enable data marketing trends more than anything else. So I would say this was a soft disclosure moment.
For the past 10 years we've had thousands of these "dude the past"/"when did everything go shit" threads. They've just become the same things repeated, nothing said in these is original by now.
>Reposted "retvrn" video/image that previously went viral on Twitter/Reddit a few hours before
>Bros when did it all go wrong
>It was 1963 when JFK was shot
>It was the 1965 immigration act
>It was 1973 when Nixon took the u.s. off the gold standard
>It was 1980 when Reagan fricked america
>It was Y2K
>It was 9/11
>It was 2004 when the last 90s holdovers ended
>It was 2007 iphone and facebook
>Acshulee it was 2012 mayans were right
>Dude it's 2008 when the recession, Obama, CERN happened
>It was 2016 when Blumpf and wokeness happened
>It was 2020 with the coof and trannies
>Remember what THEY took from you *shows clip of le 1987 7-eleven at Disneyworld*
>You can still do those things chud
>"NO ONE WAS EVER HAPPY" This is what you sound like shitlib
zoomer spotted, Even gen x'ers and boomers agree life peaked in the 90's and early 2000s
seethe
Technically Yes, Then it stayed stagnant until the Smart phone was invented in 2007 were it began death spiraling.
Zoomers and Alphas Truly do not understand how soulful things were back then
Vis a vis zion