I think also at least for America and the West, it was this beautiful, hopeful ten years (almost exactly) between the the end of the Cold War and the start of the War on Terror.

Artilektt

The 90s certainly was more intellectually barren. BUT we were more ignorant and more naive. In a sense, its why we enjoyed it more.

There are somethings we don't appreciate about our current age....if in 1999 you told your family at Thanksgiving that "the banks are endlessly printing money and it will destroy the economy" almost everyone would've called you a conspiracy theorist.

In 2025, that is no longer a provocative statement....almost everyone agrees with it.

We've come a long way. 9/11 probably couldn't happen today in the sense that the public wouldn't fully accept the message. There would be suspicion. There would be questions....

But from a social perspective, the mid 90s probably represented the apogee of the post WW2 period. Even though we were naive, there was probably a greater happiness in it....

econ

Was the World of the 1990s Better Than Today’s? (Branko Milanovic)

denlillaapan

The 90s certainly was more intellectually barren. BUT we were more ignorant and more naive. In a sense, its why we enjoyed it more.

There are somethings we don't appreciate about our current age....if in 1999 you told your family at Thanksgiving that "the banks are endlessly printing money and it will destroy the economy" almost everyone would've called you a conspiracy theorist. 

In 2025, that is no longer a provocative statement....almost everyone agrees with it. 

We've come a long way. 9/11 probably couldn't happen today in the sense that the public wouldn't fully accept the message. There would be suspicion. There would be questions....

But from a social perspective, the mid 90s probably represented the apogee of the post WW2 period. Even though we were naive, there was probably a greater happiness in it....