I'd say "No, Terrible Decade".  Even when it seems like it's becoming better, we get to see Nelly's Grillz.  ;D

I'd say "No, Terrible Decade".  Even when it seems like it's becoming better, we get to see Nelly's Grillz.  ;D


I hear ya, Donnie...at least about the Nelly thing. I don't think the 00's (or whatever we're calling 'em this week) are really all that bad, overall. So far, this decade has been far kinder to me in many ways than the 90s were. Getting married to my sweetheart three years ago is reason enough to call it a good decade.  :)

I like the '00s, do I absolutely love the '00s- no, but overall I don't mind this decade. It's not as bad as some people think.

Mainstream pop culture is never all that great, and I personally prefered the 90s... but this ain't THAT bad of a decade.

I like the '00s, do I absolutely love the '00s- no, but overall I don't mind this decade. It's not as bad as some people think.


Actually, although I like the '90s better, I think the '00s is probably a better time to be a kid.  The '90s were so adult-oriented, today is more kid-friendly.  Also, the '00s make a better nostalgia decade since they're more cheesy and one-tracked than the '90s.

Actually, although I like the '90s better, I think the '00s is probably a better time to be a kid.  The '90s were so adult-oriented, today is more kid-friendly.  Also, the '00s make a better nostalgia decade since they're more cheesy and one-tracked than the '90s.


I like the '90s better as well, but I don't know about today being a better time to be a kid, I think the '90s were a great time to be a kid. For one thing the programs I watched in the '90s as a kid are a lot better than the cheesy preteen stuff that disney and nick are filled with today, I guess the kids today like that stuff but I never got into it much.

I like the '90s better as well, but I don't know about today being a better time to be a kid, I think the '90s were a great time to be a kid. For one thing the programs I watched in the '90s as a kid are a lot better than the cheesy preteen stuff that disney and nick are filled with today, I guess the kids today like that stuff but I never got into it much.


That's true.  On second thought, I agree, the '90s were better. Our Nick was way better than the Spongebob channel, and before 1998 or so there was hardly any Japanimation.

It's OK, though I don't have to go through it again...though I think I'm starting all over (Rarely speak of my personal life  :-X)...

Nope, not fond of it.

This decade, as with all the previous decades has had its ups and downs, both personally and culturally, so I'd say it's okay.

It's ok, it's kind of how I found this board.  :)

I like it.  But I'm not comparing the '00s to the past, I'm comparing it to the still unformed future. 

That's because I'll be older in the 2010's and 2020's.  So I enjoy my life as a still relatively young man of 30, where I can look back on the times I grew up in (80s and 90s) and still do it from a young guy's perspective.  Whereas in the 2020s I'll be in my 40s and 50s. 

Reminiscing about growing up in the 80s can be seen as cool today, because 30 year olds are doing it, not 60 year olds.

So in that sense, the '00s are not bad at all.  Not bad indeed.  I'm down wit it. 

The 00s being my "younger prime age" (I made that term up) I have to say: Yes, I'm loving it!  8)

It's been okay - It's had its ups and downs, but I have also accomplished a lot these last 6 years.

This is a good decade so far,but i'm currently worried that it'll get worse.

It's ok.

Personally, I think that the 00's suck. I mean, nobody cares about anything anymore. Everyone just wants to ignore how bad everything is and plug all the holes up with superficial crap like bad music, shopping, hair,celebrity exploits, romantic comedies, etc... It's almost to much to bear. It makes you want to cut yourself off from the rest of the world, and say "ah, to hell with 'em!"

Then there are things like human trafficking, the "mind-numbing effects of globalisation," a political shift toward the Right throughout the Anglo world, blah blah blah... I just can't stand it, and the only thing I'll be sad about when it's over is the fact that I'll be ten years older.

It's OK. In fact, I predict that in the 2010s and Teens, people will be nostaglic for the "good old" 00 decade. I mean, we already have 90s nostalgia and that was only 6 years ago.

I hate this decade. I think it's a load of materialistic bullsheesh that will look extremely charming in retrospect to those for whom the actual memory of it has faded-like the 1980s. Everyone wanted to forget the 1980s until about 2002 or so, when it came back big time as a nostalgia fetish and fixation. Things I hate about this decade:

1. World affairs suck. 9/11, the "mind-numbing effects of globalization", big business' stranglehold on the US populace, a recession that is likely to turn into a depression, energy crises, the war on terrorism, security anxiety, the war in Iraq...
2. Overt materialism and vacuity have made a big comeback after being in recession since the 1980s.
Everybody my age just seems to be into this stuff and has very little real desire to change the world. And yet there's so much to change. Classism has also made a big comeback.
3. Nothing is real and grungy anymore. Everything's all Disneyified and pretentious. In everything. And the so-called bohemian scene is mindnumbingly materialistic and boring. The coming severe recession will change this, probably.
4. The music and TV are awful. No decent sitcoms. Reality TV was big and now is as mindnumbingly boring as regular TV.
5. Everything is aesthetically pleasing but nothing has substance or excitement. Most people are extremely corporate in this way, imitating what they see around them.
6. Everyone is receding from the world into their little world of the internet, iPods, and blogging and becoming less like real people. This is going on so much now and having a horrible effect on the social skills and habits of young people today. I think as people become adjusted to these things in the 2010s they'll become alot less of a big deal, though still common, and real communication will come back in vogue as people react cynically to the prevalence of these things and get sort of bored with them and used to them, and a younger, smaller Generation Z becomes the disenchanted and rebellious Generation X to Generation Y.

I hate this decade. I think it's a load of materialistic bullsheesh that will look extremely charming in retrospect to those for whom the actual memory of it has faded-like the 1980s. Everyone wanted to forget the 1980s until about 2002 or so, when it came back big time as a nostalgia fetish and fixation. Things I hate about this decade:

1. World affairs suck. 9/11, the "mind-numbing effects of globalization", big business' stranglehold on the US populace, a recession that is likely to turn into a depression, energy crises, the war on terrorism, security anxiety, the war in Iraq...
2. Overt materialism and vacuity have made a big comeback after being in recession since the 1980s.
Everybody my age just seems to be into this stuff and has very little real desire to change the world. And yet there's so much to change. Classism has also made a big comeback.
3. Nothing is real and grungy anymore. Everything's all Disneyified and pretentious. In everything. And the so-called bohemian scene is mindnumbingly materialistic and boring. The coming severe recession will change this, probably.
4. The music and TV are awful. No decent sitcoms. Reality TV was big and now is as mindnumbingly boring as regular TV.
5. Everything is aesthetically pleasing but nothing has substance or excitement. Most people are extremely corporate in this way, imitating what they see around them.
6. Everyone is receding from the world into their little world of the internet, iPods, and blogging and becoming less like real people. This is going on so much now and having a horrible effect on the social skills and habits of young people today. I think as people become adjusted to these things in the 2010s they'll become alot less of a big deal, though still common, and real communication will come back in vogue as people react cynically to the prevalence of these things and get sort of bored with them and used to them, and a younger, smaller Generation Z becomes the disenchanted and rebellious Generation X to Generation Y.



Although I still hold to the belief the the '00s is just a Disneyfied '90s, I do see what you're saying.

Even though 2000s music is pretty much just an evolution of '90s music (except for Crunk and emo, which are pretty exclusively '00s), the television is definitely different. 
And I agree that the '00s are more shallow and materialistic, however I think they're "hip" rather than trendy like the '90s were.

I agree with you...the whole culture being hip as opposed to trendy is a return to the 1980s from the 1990s. There also isn't that much creativity in culture overall right now. I think it's because of the boomers getting older and more settled in their ways to allow creativity, and because Gen Y overall isn't that creative, with some exceptions. Gen X is too small to dominate.

Overall I think this decade is the best, but some things like music kind of suck.  The 90s had great music-I'm a big fan of grunge/alternative but the 2000s has mainly been gangsta rap and emo which I both hate with a passion!  It seems most of the good bands and music are ignored by the mainstream this decade like Chili Peppers, Radiohead, 311, Weezer, Incubus, White Stripes ect.  A lot of the mainstream music this decade is by talentless and corporate made artists.  TV also sucks this decade, I'm tired of reality tv and "intense" medical dramasa.  I wish good time sitcoms would make a comeback.  Movies this decade however are awesome!! Sure there have been let downs, but there have been a lot of creative stories and the graphics/special effect this day and age are so realistic!  Overall this decade is pretty awesome! I have to disagree though with kids having a better time this decade than the 90s.  I think the 90s were a way better time to be a kid!! The 90s had great well illustrated cartoons: Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles, Eek! the Cat, David the Gnome(carried over from 80s), Rupert, the Adventures of Tin Tin, Spider-Man, Batman, X-men, Rocko's Modern Life ect..  The 90s actually had Saturday Morning Cartoons!!! I woke up every Sat. morning at 7 to watch cartoons, it was great!  Now all the shows are japanese animated or drawn poorly and have little or no imagination, there have been some good ones like Courage the Cowardly Dog, but overall Sat. mornings are dead.  Plus the 90s had supersoakers, Nerf guns, Sega, Super NES, gak, action figures were still popular.  Kids today do nothing but play computer/console games. 

"...the so-called bohemian scene is mindnumbingly materialistic and boring."

I agree with this statement completely. The bobos (so-called bourgeois bohemians) make me physically ill.

There is no authenticity scene in Gen-Y. The sheer vacuousness of the Gen-Y cultural environment is all-pervasive. All the truly "authentic" people have had their souls blown out, and have been rendered too misanthropic (because of their disgust for this culture) to find eachother.

GenY is, above all, a scene-oriented culture. Most people subscribe to some form of sub-cultural notion. If you're in GenY, this is no news to you. There is the uberculture of glam and gloss, and the many subcultures (i.e. emos, hardcore punks, wannabe punks, bobos/scenesters*, hipsters, various political youth movements, hip-hoppers, retro-hippies, drugtakers, rednecks, vegans, vegetarians, various religious groups, straightedgers etc...).

*the Scenesters are the largest scene by far, and are particularly disgusting to me.*

Think of how many scenes there are... maybe hundreds. And every one of them is so dogmatically about something. To the individual, the "scene" scene is so pass