What was western society like before 9/11?

BLOCKBUSTER I remember being there to demo the n64 for the first time with my brother, damn i miss that place. I used to rent a Bond movie there every Friday there

Not OP, but I was like 8 months old when 9/11 happened.

Not full of mulsims

it had it's problems but life was pretty good and carefree for the most part

One thing... The need for security was not there. Security at a sporting event was strictly for keeping drunks in line... the idea of a terror event wouldn’t even cross your mind. 9/11 put all sorts of fear in the mind about what might happen.

This depressed me. I was 14 when this happened . Air force , coast guard and navy doing constant pattols, everyone in my freshman class freaking out, getting off school early, sitting at home with the family that evening watching the news and pondering where do we go from here? Almost seems like yesterday.

>DUDE IT LITERALLY CHANGED EVERYTHING!

It did you fucking idiot. Summer of 01' was the last innocent summer for me.

Edgier, but also better

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Literally so shitty that people wanted to fly an airplane into it

relatively high trust.

People had to go out to find entertainment so there were not many sheltered shut in kids like on Jow Forums
Even all of the nerds from my highschool now have kids/grandkids.
Even the fatty who shit himself and pitched a fit in gym in grade 8 and we named a dance after him (the shitfit) after he got out of the mental ward and like 80 of us did it in front of him at a dance while he cried.
That guy has 4 kids now.
That's what life was like, it was actual fucking life. Not a bunch of contrived scenarios woven by sedentary skinnyfats who legitimately don't know anything of the world beyond rhetoric, but actual face to face interactions where people had to back up their words with their presence.

Are you okay?

absolutely based. I went to my barber yesterday and asked for a bowl cut and hair curtains. I thought he was going to fuck my shit up, but he's 36 and I'm 30 so we remember exactly how that look went. I unironically rock hair curtains now. Ladies watch out.

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its sad looking back and seeing all the seeds of what was to become tyrannical leftist dogma
diversity was cool and non-whites were respectful and easy to get along with, they werent bitching about rights and overly sensitive crybabies if you didnt understand their culture
the women were becoming more independent and had a touch of feminism but were still fun to be around and not the insufferable banshees they are today.
porn was still kind of a rare luxury and the video games had far less pixels so there was still some pragmatic reason for going outside
music was ok but clearly going the shitter talentwise, tv and movies were alrite and actually had some depth, not just mere tools for disseminating liberal propaganda

>where people had to back up their words with their presence.
if only this were a thing again. 99% of political debates would end

It was awesome. nobody cared if you were gay, black, white, and noone literally gave a single fuck about muslims.

days were longer.

rock and roll
emos
goth
grunge
police weren't complete dick heads
kids played outside
less political bullshit everywhere
nobody was triggered by the word nigger

1990 - 2001 pretty good

the threat of total nuclear war was gone
this was a mind fuck to kids of the early 80's

no muslim
fewer chinks

just whites

video stores were evil inmho

exposed kids to filth and horror

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... and while were at it

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It inspired me to do what I do today. Make pizza for a living. My parents are a little confused by my career choice.

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namefags get the rope first

Fuck the internet and everything that came with it

The world before the internet was a
much better place

I was an adult already.

People didn't give a fuck about Muslims or even knew anything about them. If people talked about the middle east they thought of an oasis in the desert, incense, camel rides in the dunes, good hospitality. There wasn't terrorist attacks on Westerners, before the 90's there were white tourists safely backpacking and hiking in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

9/11 changed the West forever, Muslim violence started being on tv every night and a lot of the new generation grew up more weary of Muslims. Associated them with violence and radicalism.

I think that trend is reversing now. Isis and Al Qaeda have lost much of their old prestige which has lowered recruitment. I remember in the years following 9/11 the common saying was "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim". That kind of belief has really gone away due to the rise of right wing radicals which had committed a few large scale massacres. I think the pendulum is switching and terrorism is going to become more associated with the far right wing.

Early 90's was like an episode of Home Improvement with Tim Allen.

Late 90's was like waiting for a prosperous future. People thought they would have flying cars, medical advancements, wealth, etc. once the year 2000 hit. There was a sense of optimism because of this, but not in a greedy way. More of like a sense of hope or perhaps a curiosity about how life will be different.

2001 was essentially where Jews pushed the extra plastic Hollywood/MTV lifestyle that we have today.

In the past, wealth was measured by comfort. Today, it's measured by how much of a playboy/baller you are, and how much vanity you can portray. Social Media caused that, especially.

Holy shit that picture takes me back

Lego Island?

I never thought BLOCKBUSTER would be a symbol of sanity, but fuck, life was a lot simpler back then. Whites were still getting fucked over royally, but there wasn't the same sense of oh-fuck urgency

>Late 90's was like waiting for a prosperous future. People thought they would have flying cars, medical advancements, wealth, etc. once the year 2000 hit. There was a sense of optimism because of this, but not in a greedy way. More of like a sense of hope or perhaps a curiosity about how life will be different.
Yeah I remember this. I'm not joking that for me the childhood's end and start of pessimism was Star Wars Phantom Menace. For the first time ever new thing of old proved it could be horrible, and it has been that way ever since getting ever worse.

>less political bullshit everywhere
hah ok

I much preferred my local video rental shop. The based Indian man didn't give a fuck what I rented. He would recommend the best Arnie films / action shoot em ups and I was only 10. I could ride my bike there. He also let me rent rated "M" N64 games. Nearly had my first fap to Duke Nukem 2d titties. I miss it, man.

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gen x girls were more athletic
hot legs
tits
faces
fark
aside from being craven chad fuckers, they were the last women i guess

The same empty and vapid consumerist trash, it was just easier to pretend that it was making you happy.

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Hes right in a sense. Back in pre-internet times people were less sheltered and had to actually meet face to face to debate their views. Now in the internet age you can spout caustic drivel and plug your ears at all discourse and go LALALA and noone can stop you. Multiply this by 1 billion people online and now everyone has an opinion and absolutely HAS to scream it out to everyone and ruin their day. Again, the internet ruined everything.

Didn't stop my female school teachers and the schools in trying to indoctrinate me about environmentalism, le population bomb, white guilt, and le holohoax.

If anything, things became less close minded and one sided.

>1995

>Be me

>had this exact haircut as a hs freshman

This one got me right in the feels.

dont blame the internet
it just shone the light on what trash most people are, and the fact that they should have no say what so ever when it comes to politics, and that we need to replace this fascism we live under with our own

We only knew muslims were a bunch of dirka dirkas in the middle east. Don't think I even saw a dirka dirka before then

I'm 41 and stateside things were a lot more chill. We had just come off the ugly 2000 election and some Dems were still butt hurt and angry at Republicans. But in general people didn't think too much beyond their own border. 9-11 made people take international affairs a lot more seriously.

Also, flying wasn't as painful as it is now. And you didn't have to walk through metal detectors to go to sporting events.

Otherwise, things weren't that much different.

It was beautiful
Words cannot describe

Cucked, but not as bad is it is now

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It wasn't perfect by any means, but it was better. Actually even post 9/11 wasn't total shit. The real problem is the year 2007.

I dont remember