The 00s have been both the most difficult and transformative decade of my life. I'm simultaneously grateful for them and happy to move on from them.

Despite the attention that the US terrorist attacks and the resulting wars received not too much happened during this decade in a cultural sense, did it? All the other decades had a distinctive quality to them, and it would be easy to see on the cultural products as well. This one just felt more like a continuation of the latter half of the last decade, really.

You can put on a record from ten years ago and the chances are you wouldn't be able to tell too easily whether it was released ten years ago or just last week. I'm still using Photoshop 5.0 on my computer - which is over 10 years old - and see no reason to upgrade. Most of the clothing items that people wear wouldn't have had looked so out of place ten years ago either. Scientific discoveries? What scientific discoveries? Well, they finally realized most ulcers were caused by a bacteria infection and not stress. Cars? Does anyone really prefer the models they have today over what they had ten years ago? Is the food that we eat somehow considerably different? No.

I really do feel like we've entered an age of a relative cultural standstill.

novabrkr said:

This is the decade in which the world shrank by leaps and bounds. The internet connected everyone with the means to buy a coputer and a connection. People took and are still taking back the media with blogs and DIY journalism. Social networking has allowed us to not only not lose the people in our lives everyone before us has, old college roommates, long lost cousins, and so on, but to make new connections with people all over the world we've had had no possible way to meet even 15 years ago. Video phones became reality, not to mention exceedingly cheap, instead of being relegated to sci-fi fantasy.
It's the www decade. Sure, it started earlier, but it really hit it's stide and came into it's own in this decade.

n just to think we all only have 3 years left.

Despite the attention that the US terrorist attacks and the resulting wars received not too much happened during this decade in a cultural sense, did it? All the other decades had a distinctive quality to them, and it would be easy to see on the cultural products as well. This one just felt more like a continuation of the latter half of the last decade, really.

You can put on a record from ten years ago and the chances are you wouldn't be able to tell too easily whether it was released ten years ago or just last week. I'm still using Photoshop 5.0 on my computer - which is over 10 years old - and see no reason to upgrade. Most of the clothing items that people wear wouldn't have had looked so out of place ten years ago either. Scientific discoveries? What scientific discoveries? Well, they finally realized most ulcers were caused by a bacteria infection and not stress. Cars? Does anyone really prefer the models they have today over what they had ten years ago? Is the food that we eat somehow considerably different? No.

I really do feel like we've entered an age of a relative cultural standstill.

The 00s have been both the most difficult and transformative decade of my life. I'm simultaneously grateful for them and happy to move on from them.

It's unbelievable. Yesterday we were dying from Y2K, now I'm turning 40. What the hell happened?!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I don't know about any of you, but my 30's pretty much sped right past me when I wasn't looking. In 16 months I'll be turning 40 myself.

It's not fair I tell you.

Wow...my life has changed a lot this past decade.
I hope next decade is a bit less eventful to be honest.
I am getting too old for all of the major changes I went through in the last decade.

veronikka said:

I'm going to be 43 this year!!! When the hell did that happen. I want my 30's back!!!!!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I've been 43 since December. it's not so bad.

MrsMdiver said:

hate to point this out but it's about to be very eventful, probably for the rest of your life!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Very true but hopefully in different ways.

Wow...my life has changed a lot this past decade.
I hope next decade is a bit less eventful to be honest.
I am getting too old for all of the major changes I went through in the last decade.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

Hey my birthday is on Pearl Harbor day. You're a sagitarius.

PurpleJedi said:

it's kids. I was 29 when I got pregnant, and now look!

ZombieKitten said:

Yeah...by the time you're done with the diapers and the tantrums and the strollers and the wipes...you got a head full of gray hairs!
WTF?!?!?!

do yall actually think the world is gonna end in 2012,those people have been wrong in the past,they will be this time around too.

dance4me3121 said:

...by "those people" - I assume that you mean the end-of-the-world naysayers that spring out of the woodwork at every major occassion to scare the masses???

Well, I would agree with that.

HOWEVER, what scares me JUST A BIT is the fact that the "other people" - those being the ancient Maya who perfected the calendar that ends its current cycle on 12/31/12 - were more often than not RIGHT.

You can read up for yourself how eerily their eras of bad times coincided with actual tragedy. The grandaddy of them being the prophesy of Quetzalcoatl (bearded white "god" returning from the East to conquer the lands) coincided on their calendar with the landing of Cortez.

So what is going to happen on 12/31/12? I'm hoping for the best - NOTHING. But with the looming threat of the reversal of the earth's polarity (one theory that ends with worldwide catastrophies) and the astronomical alignment of the cosmos that is scheduled to occur on that date (who knows WHAT that could result in)...I'm finding it hard to just dismiss the date.

dance4me3121 said:

...by "those people" - I assume that you mean the end-of-the-world naysayers that spring out of the woodwork at every major occassion to scare the masses???

Well, I would agree with that.

HOWEVER, what scares me JUST A BIT is the fact that the "other people" - those being the ancient Maya who perfected the calendar that ends its current cycle on 12/31/12 - were more often than not RIGHT.

You can read up for yourself how eerily their eras of bad times coincided with actual tragedy. The grandaddy of them being the prophesy of Quetzalcoatl (bearded white "god" returning from the East to conquer the lands) coincided on their calendar with the landing of Cortez.

So what is going to happen on 12/31/12? I'm hoping for the best - NOTHING. But with the looming threat of the reversal of the earth's polarity (one theory that ends with worldwide catastrophies) and the astronomical alignment of the cosmos that is scheduled to occur on that date (who knows WHAT that could result in)...I'm finding it hard to just dismiss the date.

PurpleJedi said:

Great thanks for the info. Now I've got something to look forward to