Random American High School in 1989: Such vitality, happiness, vigor...What happened to us?

hey, youtube is a trip you can find all kinds of stuff

Now, young people are bitter, disrespectful. Calling all older people ( probaly the grown up kids in this video) Ok B**mers

Everythings ripe for a new crop of young mao footsoldiers

marxist took over the education system.

that’s what happened.

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Viruses and viral overloads made their debut in full force with only more and more pharmaceuticals, the spark has been diminished.

Are you familiar with the phrase "out of the blue"? As in out of nowhere?

each generation has cool things about it, and shitty things that happened.

Exactly. These filthy sub-human locusts swarming in and driving down wages. Add profiteering gluttons of all shades willing to exploit them with no thought to the long-term consequences and you have a recipe for destruction.

These savagages leave nothing but destruction in their wake. Neighborhoods that have stood for a hundred years. Bastions of middle class freedom and prosperity turned into barrios and ghettos in less than twenty years due to forced(read:section 8)integration coupled with white flight.

As much As it pains me to say: we are living in the decline of Rome. I see nothing short of a catastrophe of the most biblical form changing things. If not we can look forward to the further erosion of the middle class while the rich get richer off the backs of the lower class.

PC culture played a part. I just saw an old photo of kids involved in the Powder Puff football game from 1989. The guys would dress as cheerleaders and stuff their tops with balloons to simulate boobs and the girls would wear football pads and uniforms. Was a lot of fun and allowed both sexes to laugh at each other and maybe get to know each other better. Now we cant do it because we might offend so low IQ fuck up who cant tell if he has a penis or vagina

That's part of it too.

I read a quote from an ancient Greek philosopher who complained about younger people in his society having some of the traits evident among younger people today. Or a bit of younger generations throughout history wanting to push the envelope and promote non-conformity.

But since that boundary has been already stretched beyond recognition in 2020 America, who or what is exactly a case of pushing the envelope?

A lot of cultural, social, political preferences of a Donald Trump were considered as a default way of thinking and behaving in the US before the era of Clinton/Obama. But today?

Gender bending, rap-music loving, Silicon-Valley-type greed and self-entitlement, chaotic/shit-smeared sidewalks of a San Francisco/Baltimore.

All because a lot of cultural, social, political liberalism is so wonderful, so beautiful.

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86-89 were the last of the middle class America kids, they were in kindergarten and elementary school when Nixon resigned. They came of age in the Reagan years.

After them came the Goths and Grunge, spiked dog collars, black fingernail polish, Columbine, Kurt and Marilyn Manson self loathing horseshit and it has not been the same since

the misery generation, hello you have reached the winter of our discontent, we're in an opioid stupor, please leave a message at the tone.

Clinton era high school kids and its THEIR children who are now in high school and college, remember that 9/11 was almost 20 yrs ago and the kids who were toddlers or in kindergarten then have virtually no memory of what America was like prior

NAFTA gutted our manufacturing dads and Lehman collapse killed the subprime mortgages, leaving people w/destroyed credit ratings, hopelessness and falling standard of living

They did a miserable job of raising their kids who are angry millenials that want to essentially kill anyone over the age of 45, enraged at the mess our nation has become.

This is what happens when you let Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera and Snookie raise your kids on Mtv beachhouse grind

So much fr having fun with high school memories.

Back to virus doom for me. Think I'll listen to some Green day and Nirvana.

Carry on.

... but now we see a push for uber conformity.

NWO, that's what heppened...

such a trip. i always think the bad apples spoil the whole bunch.

its not about immigration or marxism or any one issue.

the whole entire world is constantly changing.

i got away with a good deal despite the draconian schooling.

human children will always have fun somehow.

GTFO ... there is a Black Guy in the Video ...

BlOOMERS happened.

- horrible, selfish parents

- cannibal capitalism, diminished job prospects

- media saturation

- cultural polarization.

- families broke and broken.

- SAD diet, additives, high fructose corn syrup, obesity

- glorification of alcohol and drugs in movies

I came of age at that time. Parents were raging, self-absorbed narcissists. In every job there was someone 10 to 20 years older barring the door to opportunity, characterizing all Xers as slackers or lazy. Wgeeling, dealing, cheating. The same generation fleeced their parents, treated them like crap while structuring their estates to stick it to their own kids.

Immigrants have always been a part of the American experience. However, about this time, the immigrant populations in America started being indoctrinated into being armies of freeloading, big government, malcontents. Many took the bait, stopped attempting to assimilate and began preserving their own failed cultural norms on American soil. With the full aid and comfort of the American left, of course.

And keep in mind a lot of that rich has the attitudes and politics of a Jeff Bezos (liberal), George Soros (liberal), Mark Zuckerberg (liberal), Schick/Nike/CNN (liberal), Silicon Valley (liberal) and even notorious full-blown con artists like a Bernie Madoff (liberal).

"We came, we saw, you got ripped off (cackle, cackle)."

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^people of this thread :)

The control freaks increasingly took over the world from 2001 until now.

That is the main difference that I see from 1989 up until today.

Divide and Conquer was used pervasively on the public to enable those high-level manipulators to achieve their (selfish) objectives.

Schools are different as well with both real and fake/FF school shootings, with pass-thru metal detectors and local police and security officers' presence at most schools nowadays.

Fear has been ramped-up and weaponized in the days since 1989.

Cui bono?

A mirror reflection of the boom-boom generation. Z are pretty much a mirror reflection of X. Was having this discussion with Mini LJS last evening - she had made the observation herself. I found that interesting.

Damn good times. Damn good

Fantastic post

Many factors. 911 being a key one. I was a 90s high school kid and it seemed it was beginning to turn then. But one thing I remember different than the kids of the 80s was a removal of morality from school combined with removal of consequences. Then they pumped in education rife with narcissistic promotion. Hell kids used to carry shotguns to school. Then that stopped after a few government sanctioned school shootings.

WOW!!!

You know my mother????

Only thing that saved me were Grandparents who took me from her. Crazy entitled bitch. Only person I know living on inherited $$$ and still thinks everyone owes her.

When I graduated in 2010 people weren't nearly as addicted to their phones. I think internet access phones came out in 2007-2008, and not everyone had them in high school. We still interacted, had more social activities, etc. A couple of years later it had gotten pretty mainstream. Early 2000s is when I noticed a huge increase in immigration and things changed a lot from that.

Hmm. I notice that the high school hadn't been enriched with diversity yet. We keep inviting the third world and then wonder why society continues on its downward slide.

The internet, forced diversity, cultural Marxism, post 9/11 politics, etc

You can kiss the glory years goodbye.

And the 1990s were a hint of what was yet to come with Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, and Columbine. Teenagers see all this and integrate it into their awareness and views.

News events shape your perception of life, and how you react to others around you.

There is also the movie/television and music industry, and social media with its own agenda(s), shaping how people think in any given era.

It certainly seems that 1989 was a more innocent carefree age than here in 2020.

Also to add... wWith the rise of media saturation (movies, tv,videos, reality tv, social media) comes a self awareness that kids didn't usually attain until about 30.

Used to be kids were just kids. They got their identity from their families, hobbies, friends. They were free to be themselves, explore who they were, make mistakes, build character.

Now, they have an infinite amount influences and the camera rolling 24/7. They feel intense scrutiny and a need to be both novel and perfect.

They can go viral into fame or shame. Every mistake is documented forever, there is no time to rest, they have to keep up with the latest trend to be relevant. Their identity is formed entirely online. It's not real.

At a human level they know and feel this inauthenticity. It's creates despondency, loneliness and nihilsm. Or it cause disassociation.

Scary times when you think that these same people are also having kids themselves.

Is humanity lost?