I dunno, because I'm finding myself quite surprised that we're at the end of a decade already too. And as drastically as I changed from the week after I turned eight until the week after I turned eighteen (that being what the '90s were, for me), I still hardly recognize myself now in the 18-year-old I was -- still years away from being asked on a date, or thinking I could ever be anything but a Christian, about to set off to university full of promise and confidence and etc.etc.
I wonder if the nondescript nature of this decade is more to do with the wider culture. Thanks to the internet, among other things, there has stopped being less of a definitive epoch in music, events, attitudes, etc. that changes every few years or so, and more of a splintering where every conceivable niche is catered to and everything is in flux all the time because we have access to the practically-inexhaustible collection of information, opinions, ads and porn that we call the internet. This sort of thing can't help but be very different from the days when there were only two or three TV channels, which in turn is different from the time before nickelodeons or before radio dramas or whatever.
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I wonder if the nondescript nature of this decade is more to do with the wider culture. Thanks to the internet, among other things, there has stopped being less of a definitive epoch in music, events, attitudes, etc. that changes every few years or so, and more of a splintering where every conceivable niche is catered to and everything is in flux all the time because we have access to the practically-inexhaustible collection of information, opinions, ads and porn that we call the internet. This sort of thing can't help but be very different from the days when there were only two or three TV channels, which in turn is different from the time before nickelodeons or before radio dramas or whatever.