when i was young and optimistic, i thought we were evolving towards a chill, "post-affluent" society. instead, we've built a thunderdome of brutal status competition fueled by artificial scarcities.
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) October 5, 2020
That’s what we all thought during the 1990s. It was a very optimistic time where everything seemed to be getting better.
We were so very wrong. But it felt vastly different in ways that are difficult to describe now and it all seems a bit unreal. But it happened. I was there and I remember it well.