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

A hell of a lot FAT people then!!! I miss those days!!!

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Fewer were raised by single moms. Fewer raised in daycares or by working moms. The grew up with socializing with other kids more becuase there weren't the indoor home entertainments there are now.

Television was more restrained in what it would show. Married With Children was the trashiest behavior you'd see by far, and it was ridiculed. A guy being called an Al Bundy was not a compliment.

Although the media promoted androgyny men were still men and women were still women. There was no confusion. Men in drag were entertaining and funny, but restricted to gay nightclubs as they should be.

Cultural norms were such that acting trashy was not acceptable. Women who wore spandex as pants, or skin-tight tank tops with their udders pushing out were rightly viewed as trash.

Sluttiness was still stigmatized.

Black American culture was still dominated by soul music, when singers grew up learning in gospel choirs at church.

People were not as materialistic although they seemed at the time so excessive. Most kids, as well as their parents, could remember a lower overall standard of living.

They weren't as spoiled, still expected to do household chores and have a part time job if they wanted spending money.

The music was better because kids were raised with a work ethic and a sense of hierarchy - some people are just better athletes or artists because of both talent and hard work. There were no participation trophies. If you wanted people telling you that you're great, you had to EARN it.

"Diversity" and the Internet is what happened.

Simple answer. Liberals, Democraps, homosexuals and minorities have done it to us. They have ruined all things good we once held. Truth is truth and they are the poison.

Interesting observation.

Of course there was peer pressure at school, fashion, popularity contests, who had a car, etc., but after a day of dealing with that, you could stop when you left and be yourself.

Now that type of pressure and self-consciousness is 24 hours a day, with self-esteem often coming from how many likes you get for staring into a camera that you're aiming at your own face.

Being phony and trying to measure up to artificial and meaningless standards had a daily time limit, and you had the whole summer to be free of all the bullshit.

Imagine being so woke that you get rid of religion but end up a Puritan!

Democrat propaganda and Islam

That was 100% my school. Graduated in 88 and it was just like that video. The 80’s really were the best decade.

^This. You don’t even see kids playing outside. We lived outside practically. Internet promoted perverts acting on their perversions.

The uncool kids.

They never got past the phase of being an outcast, which is why they became SJWs and went into promoting victim politics.

They never learned that maybe they were unpopular because they were lacking in myriad personality traits like charm, wit, or developing any interests, or taking an interest in other people. Instead of working on themselves, they became Champions Of The Oppressed.

conservative gen z's=they get it because it really is this simple

boys have a penis and girls have a vagina, basic truth we all understood back then

any less produces misery that accompanies all the cascading lies from there

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Great post.

Don’t let MTV and 3 Channel Television “programming” off the hook that easy! This is middle America 1986, the LBGTQ rainbow agenda was already being rolled out. Those are jocks prancing around like dandies in neon hot pants while playing horrendous air guitar

I like what you're saying here. It's no longer OK to be awesome.

Too bad there isn't the same type of video from 1979.
You'd see the same, only cooler.

I lived those days and freedom was one thing we had more of than kids today. The war on drugs, leftists took over education, rap, MTV, Hollywood, too much immigration among other things destroyed the high school experience. They were the glory days for sure. Makes me sad for youth of today that will never have the freedom we did.

Suburbanization as well.

Older suburbs were still on a more human scale. There were convenience stores on side streets, lots of public parks and places for kids to gather socially.

The streets were safer to bicycle on - smaller roads, less and slower traffic. Now people live in big box houses with shoebox sized back lawns surrounded by six foot high fences. There might be a sportsplex-libary, or a shopping mall, and one bike path dominated by those speed-bike spandex assholes.

The subdivisions are a tangle of roads between blocks of six-lane avenues that are practically highways - very hard for kids to cross or want to cross, or parents to want them crossing. People drive like maniacs on them too.

Also, people are WAY more transient now. Yuppies trade up every few years, so fewer kids actually keep the same friends the way they used to. They change schools more, etc. Parents control their lives more since they depend on parents to shuttle them around. They don't know the freedom those who grew up before the late 90s knew.

this is probably the BEST synopsis on this topic I've ever read in my life

The first group you list tends to make up a high percentage of the other groups.

However, the percentage of Democrats who are of the left is probably a bit higher than that of homosexuals and minorities of the left too.

There are people like Milo Yiannapolous and Tammy Bruce. Or conservatives/non-liberals who are homosexual. There are people like Candace Owens and Ben Carson. Or conservatives/non-liberals who are black.

But admittedly homosexuality or black and Third-World cultures tend to a breeding ground for a lot of social, political liberalism.

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A++. Well said

Im guessing a lot of those liberal silicon valley geeks are from the uncool kid crowd.

They have some weird sex fetish clubs in Silicon valley as well. They are trying to make up not getting the hot date in high school.

Well tere is something to this OP, you might be right. I grew up in the Netherlands and attended an High School that was modeled after the American High Schools you usually will see in the average town. And that was in the early 90's. We had it all, but we also had the computer and the internet that was introduced to us. I remember making my first websites around 1994 / 1995 (after High School) and that is exactly where things started to change for the worst. Even the music died on us... It actually is something I think about quite a lot... Time flies when you're having fun I guess, I just did not know that time also swallows certain liberties and takes our freedom away over time... What the actual fuck has happened?

Sums it up perfectly. Everyplace in the world was better when it was "all white." Places that have been "infected," have declined. No doubting that fact.

Modern day Liberalism happened. Kids were taught to hate their country, hate life, to fight for made up social justice causes (I think were up to about a million now).

Then to make sure no one could fuck with their programing they made it so anyone who tried was deemed a sexists, a racist, a homophobe.

We forgot about grafitti 'art' too. Celebrating anything that came from the ghettos was the beginning of the end.

Bring middle aged is depressing. It's true. And you get grouchy..

Sums up this website perfectly!