What was society like in the 80s? It's always been depicted an amazing time to live, possibly even the peak decade of western civilization.
What was society like in the 80s? It's always been depicted an amazing time to live...
Landon Harris
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Juan Mitchell
Jews tried to make ramen noodle hair popular. Satanists took over all entertainment (not just jews but their mason cults).
Michael Adams
Degeneracy was the norm so no one really had anything to complain about...
Well maybe except communism.
Carson Hernandez
It's like cyberpunk, but without the cyber.
Ian Ward
1991-2001 was peak humanity
No threat of apocalypse, the world just slowly drifting into a decadence spiral where everyone was blissfully ignorant of everything.
If only it was a world ending meteor on 9/11 instead of planes into buildings.
Blake Phillips
Whites were the dominant music videos and bands , whites were the dominant characters and heroes in movies. White culture rules with a few nigs being slowly introduced
Mason Wright
Can’t remember, but I will say the music was pretty sweet
Henry Gomez
Imagine the stench of piss and gasoline and neon lights everywhere.
Kevin Myers
Cocaine. Shitloads of cocaine
Landon James
It was degenerate but at least it retained the masculinity of the old world. Now it is both degenerate and effeminat; most men can't even approach a woman.
But Gen Z are bringing a return to the masculine.
Aiden Price
It's pretty amazing to watch movies from the 80s and see entire rooms filled with white people enjoying something. A couple fun loving token black people and Asians here and there. They don't make movies featuring a crowd of white people anymore unless they're committing some kind of atrocity. Watch Roadhouse sometime and you'll see what I mean.
Isaiah Harris
The 90s were the peak decade. The cold war ended in 91 and we had no real enemies until a decade later after 9/11.
James Sanchez
>What was society like in the 80s?
We all thought Reagan was going to nuke Russia and cause WW3. He almost did. Also, the beginnings of the current surveillance state. And the war on drugs put lots of good people in jail and on the road to eternal poverty.
Blake Butler
It was ok? Nostalgia makes everything look better than it was. The 80s was full of "Just say no" crap and DARE, but culturally we still had some. So much music and movie creations going on, not the dull monotonous soulless age we've been in since roughly 2000, the last 20 years have been nearly identical in everything from fashion to music to politics.
Evan Butler
The music was better, the computers were worse, but at least the jews were a lot more subtle in pushing their agenda. Now these hooknosed bastards are in our face 24/7.
Jacob Ward
found the hyperbolic fag
Jose Rivera
The 1980s were also the start of the plutocracy, and it's class war.
Now that we know we DIDN'T all die in nuclear war, it can seem trivial or funny, but it really wasn't at the time.
Jeremiah Davis
played outside every day unless it was shit weather
kickball, baseball, riding bikes everywhere
played in local creek catching crayfish and turtles
had a paper route, up at 5am every day
rode bike to hardware store, bought stuff to build go-karts
sugary snacks and drinks were rarely consumed
dinner was home cooked, always had meat/veg/fruit
dessert was only on Sunday, small serving
game consoles came on the scene
not many kids had one
only played when weather was shitty
playing outside was more fun
I had an Apple IIc when they came out
a few good DOS games, got boring honestly
got my drivers license and got into cars
had two jobs to pay for speed parts and insurance
street raced every weekend, all night sometimes
lost license three different times
started college and kinda calmed down
still into cars, but it's way down on priority
Nolan Lewis
This.
Elijah Perez
I wish I could abandon this fucked up world we currently live in for 1983 culturally and demographically but with modern tech. Imagine being a kid and growing up in a safe all white town with no degeneracy and no political correctness.
t.gen-x fag
Bentley Brown
American women were such whores, but such whores, that men started admitting to it by being cuck: "You can't expect her to be virgin." or "did you know wymyn do hymen reconstruction to lie to their husband?"
Brayden Reed
Economic depression.
Mass, psychotic fear of the millennium
Sitcom boom. Cocaine punchlines, laughtracks full of dead people.
Race riots (televised)
Gulf war (televised)
Corporate cynicism. Peak Happy Meal.
Life as informercial.
It was ok, though. Nintendo, Friends and Drew Barrymore were all OK.
Wyatt Gomez
This.
Logan Martin
>Economic depression.
Not in the US.
>Mass, psychotic fear of the millennium
Uh, no? The only "fear" was Y2K, and even that was pretty tame.
Everything else is mainly on point.
Aaron Hall
Holy shit they put Gaddafi in that video. That shit was fairly disturbing to watch as an 8yr old. Had a nightmarish quality.
Also:
>Spitting Image
Nathaniel Allen
>catching crayfish
I did this too.
Played outside everyday at the local park with big gang of kids. We played every sport and game imaginable and had wars, enacted movies, played with toys.
Got a little bigger, played along railroad tracks and along local rivers. Did fun but dangerous shit like try to derail trains. Went for miles and miles on our bikes and had adventures.
There was Atari and Nintendo but it was kind of boring. There were PC games and also D&D was popular, but they were for 70's nerds.
There were great cartoons and toys. GI Joe, Transformers, Robotech, Thundercats, He-Man. The 80's was the peak for toys and cartoons in my opinion.
There were also a lot of good movies like Indiana Jones, Predator, Rambo, ET etc.
America was still a white country with a distinct white culture. For those reasons, it was a better time to be kid than now for sure.
There was no gender or racial politics and the teachers were not politically motivated. The only politics you dealt with was the fear of nuclear annihilation, which ended at the end of the decade.
It wasn't some utopia or heaven on earth though.
Juan Bennett
It is my impression the 70's were terrible, drugs, disco and depression and the 60's, while producing good music, were a time of great social upheaval, even worse than today.
The 80's and 90's were kind of relative sweet spot. The country was still white and political correctness was only just coming into the culture.
There were social troubles like the LA riots, gang culture and the crack epidemic, but that didn't effect suburbia. It was a good time to be a kid.
Things went downhill in the 2000's though. Now it is a pretty shitty time to be a kid. Broken families, no real human interaction, no fun outside, SJW brainwash and revolution everywhere, no financial future, no middle class, no jobs, no careers, no security. Families are a thing of the past. Everyone is shallow and selfish. Whites are abused 24/7.
Luis Hernandez
kek true true
Evan Russell
Maximum Tier Happening Chimpouts to ensue
Jordan Baker
One word. Cocaine.
Asher Hall
It really depends what you mean by "peak decade". For pop culture? Maybe. For the economy it was probably the 50s. For maths, science, and philosophy it was probably the 20s. For internet culture and communication anarchy, probably 2005-2017 (basically the days of early Jow Forums, pre-censorship era YouTube, pre-Google YouTube, early xbox live/PlayStation network/online console gaming, which had a big impact on millenial male culture).
Brody Robinson
>What was society like in the 80s?
fuck off boomer
Cameron Sanders
no it wasn't the 90s was the decade in which whites transitioned into niggers and when the great shitskin invasion started
80s was peak west easily, almost every house had a traditional white nuclear family
Gabriel Reyes
It was a wild time, I think partly because we all expected it to end in thermonuclear fire. It's hard to over emphasize the cultural background noise that if there was one military or diplomatic the US and Soviets would start flinging nukes at each other. Reagan was pushing the Soviets hard, and they were pushing back. We all expected cto go down fighting. So we all went a little crazy. I guess you could think of the 80's as a decade long end of the world party. Then the Berlin Wall fell in 89 and the Soviet Union collapsed in 91 and the party was over.
Nicholas Kelly
Oh and for "high culture" or "high brow" art I would say maybe 17th century Netherlands, 18th century Holy Roman Empire, or 19th century Russia. Those are basically the times and places that produced what we consider to be classic art, music, literature, etc. As I said, the 80s may have been the peak in terms of pop culture, but even 80s pop-culture is shit compared to anything that you'd find in either "high brow" academic circles (like classical music, po-mo fiction, etc.) or underground/"counter-culture" circles (e.g. black metal, hardcore punk, jazz fusion, etc.)
So yeah, basically the 80s were the "peak" of civilization, but only if our criteria are very loose, broad, and focused on pop-culture and the unthinking NPC pleb masses.
Jack Hughes
>boomer
that'd be the 60s
Caleb Scott
Just a few of The Girls I partied with in the 80's;
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Lucas Gray
>alternative music
>every syllable sounds like ay ay ay
>peak humanity
getthefuckouttahere
Hudson Ortiz
Don't you remember the enormous, constant pressure on girls to lose their virginity, from media and movies? I knew girls in school who were ASHAMED to admit they were virgin, literally the culture started shaming for it.
It used to blow my mind and enrage me, because even back then as a dumb kid I didn't want to eat a sandwich that someone else had stuck his dick in.
Nicholas Flores
Take note boys. She was grade A prime back in the mid-80s.
Christopher Gutierrez
she's had a few of these
Kayden Torres
I don't wanna get old. Fuck.
Cooper Scott
...
Carter Fisher
It was pretty good in hindsight, although I was just a kid.
Materialism was huge coming out of the 1970s. There was this weird schizophrenia about how yeah nuclear war could still happen but politically things were much better than the 1970s. It was supposedly much more materialistic and "impersonal" compared to the 1970s, which I don't remember -- think New Age hippie shit.
You saw some of the first gee whiz technology stuff and computer nerds, not the same as today but nothing like it had come before.
There was very little of the race/idpol agitation you see today. I mean it existed but it was a fringe movement.
The 1990s were much better. I never liked '80s music, fashion, etc -- either the primitive synth shit or the hair metal. Ironically I like a lot of the "retrowave" stuff coming out today, keep in mind again I was just a kid. I suspect a lot of bigshots in the 90s missed the Cold War giving their life meaning instead of squabbling over stupid shit. Underrated cause of Iraq 2 IMO.
Nathan Ramirez
I'm glad Reagan dead
Levi Allen
1984.... no white male could win 49 states in the USA ever again, even if Jesus Christ came down from the Heavens tomorrow and ran for President, he'd be lucky if he could crack 38 states...
Jonathan Rogers
the entire world was Jow Forums
Hudson Barnes
I jacked off to Weird Science so fucking much, I wore out the VHS tape.
Jaxson Edwards
There was this thing called privacy. It was probably only 30% of what it was made out to be, but sure beats the 1% we have now. Imagine it! You clock out, you go home, you are FUCKING ALONE. Alone! No boomer leering over your shoulder, eavesdropping, no Jews in your house uninvited. It was an amazing time.
Chase Howard
We had numerous cars getting 45 miles to the gallon in the 1980s, we didn't need any solar panels or hybrid-batteries or plug-in hybrids to obtain that 45 mpg level.
Grayson Roberts
it was a good time.
Nathaniel Scott
Sex offender registries were only accessible at a courthouse. You never knew who was going to rape you.
Dominic Baker
1985, you could work a part-time job for a few months and save up, and then go buy a NEW pick-up truck for $ 5900
want a Honda Ridgeline or Toyota Tacoma now ?? better be ready to spend $32,000 for entry-level, inflation is NOT to blame for that, a 5-fold increase in 35 years is something way beyond inflation...
Jose Baker
How can you cope with never being a teenager in the 80s, before the internet, living in a suburban area, taking your bike over to your girlfriends house to creampie her while her parents are out
Carson Gomez
>self proclaimed oldfag
>doesn’t greentext
Aaron Howard
Minimum wage in 1985 was $3.35. It would take 1761 hours to buy a car worth $5900
Jaxon Murphy
Going to the food-store was an experience, the toys in the cereal boxes were the real deal, you could send away for LCD game-watches, even just walking the cereal aisle or soda aisle of the foodstore there was general optimism...
Isaiah Bennett
The 80s were the start of modernized, accelerated economic globalism, but domestic life was peak optimistic in the US (which was close to 90% white at this time).
If the labor unions actually cared about working people and protecting jobs like they pretend they do by using their literal hundreds of millions of dollars in net revenue they funnel into their organizations (even now with record low numbers of dues paying members) to challenge the industry establishment's forays into places like China, Mexico and Vietnam perhaps by developing their own products, goods and services (and of course if our politicians protected our borders as well and barred banks from sending the slave wages of beaners living three dozen to a rental home barracks tax-free to third world shitholes) things might not have taken such a hard downward spiral economically.
The 80s was the peak, but the crash wasn't far behind-it was when the consequences of both the 1965 Higher Education Act and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of the same year were first starting to come home to roost.
Attending college costs nearly 600% what it once did accounting for inflation under less regulated environs and "Diversity" has finally manifested as the weapon its proponents always dreamed it'd be, with whites' median age being practically geriatric and their proportion of the population nearing the
Jayden Adams
The 70’s were super large high schools with the 80’s middle schools were introduced due to large populations. With the growth of underground college radio the really good bands were mostly unnoticed in favor of Top 40 radio. A lot of the movies were bawdy humor as the sexual revolution was in late bloom before the AIDS epidemic put the fear of God into everyone.
Gavin Brooks
Music videos had amazing production quality and most were very original. MTV was actually geared towards college aged folks that could afford their own cable subscriptions and ran alcohol advertising. Now MTV is just reality shows about knocked up teen trash.
Caleb Mitchell
I lived it. 80s was peak for sure, 90s plateau. 00-10s is the decline.
Brayden Peterson
I pre-date greentext you bastard
Isaac Cooper
Geena was yummy.
Blake Lewis
Was that just a rebadged Ford Ranger? The Mazada rotary pick ups were fast according to limeniggers that I talk to.
Noah Miller
You could go to the car dealership and get a normal sporty 2-door car made by all Manufacturers
- Buick Reatta
- Nissan Pulsar
- Honda Prelude , Honda CRX
- Toyota MR2
- VW GTI
- Mazda RX7
- Mitsibushi Starion / Conquest
- Acura Integra
- Mercury Capri.....
Henry Baker
didn't bother with new Jap cars
there were muscle cars all over the place
$1000 could buy a badass older ride
then put $1000 into it and run 11s on pump gas
Jason Morris
Point taken, but that was a 4-cylinder, 2-wheel drive peice of absolute shit. I doubt it even came with a fucking radio.
Luis Barnes
Leo Morris
Pussy was high caliber in the 1980s.
Adrian Cook
all you left handed right wankers are in for a big surprise people do not get fat, their metabolism slows to a snail pace and calories are deposited and energy levels fall and joints ache and staying fit slowly becomes not an option.
Alexander Mitchell
1986 Volkswagen Scirocco 16v. The car was a blast to drive.
Jace Sanders
It was. I remember it clearly. I would give up everything but my animals to go back.
Everything....
The kike brainwashing was almost nonexistant, niggers knew their place, and women were nice.
Kayden Morales
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always a fucking jew and an ugly one too
Elijah Thomas
Her tooth-to-gum ratio wasn't good
Cooper Brooks
Neon lights were fucking everywhere.
Sebastian Anderson
It was left over from the 1970s.
Hudson Ward
Sounds better than this timeline m8
Fat people in t-shirts, Doritos Cool Ranch smell, and stupid smart phone noises are way better right?
Liam Peterson
accurate
Evan Smith
>But Gen Z are bringing a return to the masculine
They are little nazis now. I was shocked by polls on them. Trumpler Youth marching through the streets hunched over their phones.
Austin Barnes
the 1980s, everyone on TV looked normal and thin, "Matlock" and "Murder She Wrote".... pictures coming from the White House were so normal, normalcy was in, the only folks pushing the envelope were a handful of entertainers on stage.... now you drive around town and half the people have purple-hair or tattoos or weigh 275+ pounds, you don't realize how far the country has fallen until you read a newspaper or magazine from the 1980s...
Nolan Jones
aged like vitamin D whole milk, delishhhhhh
James Harris
Society was great until 1913
Aaron Fisher
I don't know.
But I was born '83 and I fucking loved the 90s.
F
John Allen
The most degenerate and vapid decade in American history
Blake Hernandez
True.
Asher Reed
>the last 20 years have been nearly identical in everything from fashion to music to politics.
This is sadly true. Excluding tech advances, everything is monotonous.
Brandon Bell
The older generations were still holding America together and the Boomers weren't fully unleashed and in control yet. By the 90s and 00s when they began to fully suffuse the power structure the Boomers were able to wreak their cultural revolution from the highest levels of society.
Joshua Richardson
worked in a grocery store in el paso texas in 1987 as a bagger, I was stoned most of the time a teenager, trust me, It wasn't optimistic.
Wyatt Gutierrez
alot of seething zoomers here *sip*
Kevin Wilson
This is Kelly motherfucking Lebrock? Jesus Christ we need to go back to fat shaming. Very aggressively. I mean this is not okay what we're seeing here.
Jeremiah Roberts
I have seen the decline, I have always perceived it.
It's from abject consumerism, the war upon domestic labour, and corporate capture of the legislative processes.
You stupid kids have been manipulated into cheering/shilling/providing actual free labour for the worst perpetrators of the decline that you profess to despise.
You seek to strengthen the part of the machine that tells you to be comforted by its machinations.
But the whole fucking thing needs to go.
You know why the 80's were better? because we didn't socialize remotely. We lived in the real world, we could not view our fellow man through a filter of archetypes and scenarios, because everybody we talked to was always right in front of us.
Every word you uttered was backed up by the presence of your face. We were more civilized, even when fighting.
Males did not walk around being snarky and passive aggressive because people who acted like little bitches got treated like little bitches.
Women didn't have the entire fucking world constantly pouring honey into their ears, we didn't have 2's walking around acting like 10's.
And entertainment was not on demand, so we relied on each other more for entertainment.
One of the biggest activities in the 80's was to just go wandering around in a group visiting people.
Hating somebody required an actual reason, and effort.
I think that the internet has been a huge mistake. I do blame it for many of our social problems because I grew up into a young man before it existed as a household commercial phenomenon, and the difference is night and day.
I can't quit it either. I recognize that we were never meant to live such grey digital lives, our brains can't cope, but I can't turn away, not for good. I do take months away but I always come back.
Xavier Price
Truth. Then there was this fucking garbage, pic related.
Connor Gonzalez
I was disturbed by that. Very depressing.
Gabriel Taylor
Could you even imagine a world in which you trusted your government, there was no such thing as income tax, nor world wars?
Henry Perry
People were thinner
Owen Flores
this was a beautiful ride. Saw one still on the road in Argentina a while back, but really beat up.
Dominic Lewis
I remember this election. Walter Mondale got bent over and drilled like Monica Bellucci in a subway tunnel.
Jose Gutierrez
Shut up fatass.
People still stayed lean into old age half a century ago because they didn't stuff their face with french fries and soda like you.
Luke Brown
A lot of us Gen X kids still miss this car.
Isaac Perry
>By the 90s and 00s when they began to fully suffuse the power structure the Boomers were able to wreak their cultural revolution from the highest levels of society.
As a country, we still have yet to address the damage that Donahue, Sally Jesse, Geraldo, Ricki Lake, Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones did to this country in the 1990s, for 8 hours a day they clogged every TV channel in this country with the most bizarre degeneracy ever seen in the country, colleges were sponsoring free bus trips to the TV studios of those shows, every single college lunchroom had those shows on the TVs all day long, the gyms had those shows going all day long... you couldn't have the LGBT-Circus Freakshow of today without having those shows first weakening the country in the 1990s