The thing that made the pre-internet era so great was boredom. While we may have hated it at the time, it forced us to actually go out and seek thrills outdoors and experience the world.
There is no such thing as "boredom." It was downtime to think and be thankful for what you had. It was a time dream and fantasize about what is possible and to contemplate the meaning of it all. In 2024 there is no down time to think and dreams come prepackaged in little boxes. All there is is mindless consumerism and nobody grateful for any of it because it is all meanness. Without downtime to rationalize meaning then there is no meaning. People are just going through the motions like robots rushing off to the inevitable end where they kick the bucket.
@@dumbcat I was one, and can confirm we turned out crazy. Born in '83 and using IRC by age 5. Ran BSD my fancy new mac iici, so friends without an ISP could dial up and NAT out. Parents hated it - tied up both lines at 2400. Even then, we'd go out all day to catch frogs at the creek and get in good healthy kid trouble. When my dad showed me Mosaic, I laughed and told him nobody would ever deal with something as bothersome as a mouse 🤷♂️ Aging alongside tech has felt like a kind of existential vertigo. Perhaps someone older will reassure me that it's just life. 🧘♂️
It's painful how much I miss the 80s. I was a kid back then,and looking back, it alll seems like an alternate reality. There was some kind of indescribable magic in the air.
How young? I was a 1983 kid and for the longest time I thought my fond memories as a kid happened during the 90s but it was actually the late 80s. I grew up during the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle & Nintendo generation. To this day I'll still watch entertainment from the 80s that I never seen before & I'll still enjoy it like it was new. Although I don't like modern shows at all.
@@HereticHydra TMNT was my first cinema film growing up and I’ve been a turtle fan ever since 😊 🐢 T.U.R.T.L.E Power! RIP real special fx and JIM HENSEN!
I turned 9 in 1980. I HATED the decade. I have zero nostalgia for it, but since about 2000 I recognized that it was Peak Western Culture. It's been downhill ever since.
It not arguably, DEFINATELY had the best movies. Best Cartoons too! Ghostbusters, Predator, Rambo, Transformers, Thundercats, Conan, Terminator etc All original stuff, not damn adaptions. Powerful magical time, and I am glad I was a kid art the time. Born December 1976
The thing that I remember as a kid in the 80s and early 90s was that there was a lot more from earlier times still in use and in sight on the streets, in buildings and in people's homes. The 80s were a lot closer to the 40s, 50s and 60s than we are to the 80s and 90s now, everything has been retired, replaced, remodelled, destroyed and demolished. The fundamental beliefs and morals of the society are significantly different as well. The "authorities" were believed to be much more credible then and now that people can find information if they really want it, we have figured out that nothing can be trusted unless you have seen it with your own eyes to be a true fact.
Even seeing is be questioned, and it’s all by design. The pharaoh’s children are ruling from their base in SwisseeLand, they control everything.!. I believe that we are living in the short time of the deceiver Love Truth Seek Peace Praise Jesus
I always say that. My childhood in the 80s/90s and my parents in the 60s? Were pretty much identical. Besides a few new gizmos we had. VCR, microwave, video games and more channels. We still did almost the exact same things our parents did. As where my kids are light years different from me as a kid
Ahhh the 80's was a last ditch effort to forget the sixties and seventies existed, well that did not turn out so well did'nt it? If anything we have a far stronger burn it all down generation now than even the hippies were. I hated the 80's, it was the first retro-decade where everyone was looking back not forwards, however anything is better than this strange parody of the 20th Century called the 21st.
In the mid 80s....When me and my friends would get pulled over with a 12 pack of beer in the back seat.. they took our beer and told us to go home.. one time the deputy put our beer in the ditch and told us we can come back tomorrow and get it. We had to be doing something really stupid to get in trouble. I feel sorry for our kids today.... police are jackboot thugs
They would even pull you over in some cases after you left the bar and tell you to follow them as they drove slowly to your house and give you a little lecture and warning when you got there and you'd thank them and go inside.
Yea too bad about the SIX members of the Challenger. Strange how the crew have doppelgängers who are alive, in some cases with exactly the same names (Richard Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnick, Sharon McAuliffe). What are the chances of that?
It's Cuz They NEVER DIED! They Actually Went Back To Their Boring Desk Jobs After Playing Their Roles In The Fictitious World Of Space Exploration- Which Has NEVER HAPPENED, As There IS NO TRUE "OUTER SPACE"! Outer Space Is Explainative To The Fact That There ARE LANDS BEYOND ANTARCTICA AND THE MAN MADE ICE "WALL". These Lands Exist Beyond The Poles, And, As We See All The Time, Nobody Wants Us To Know About!
The 80s feels like the last "Real" decade we had, primarily because we didn't have the Internet. It has the best music, best movies, most varied clothing styles, and it was very punk. Computers and the Internet didn't take over yet. If you wanted to hang out you had to get out of the house and ride your bike to your friends house. In some ways the Internet ended that way of life in a very profound way.
It was like that in the 90s too as far as hanging out goes. Wasn’t until the last few years of that decade that people were really given the option of internet life on a commercial scale.
Great topic. I do think those in control have been messing with time for ages. It feels like each decade from the 1930s to the end of 1990s had very specific culture, humour, fashion, home decor, architecture, toys, music, food and drink etc that can bring nostalgia on. The magic died in 2000s...
The early 90’s seemed like things were preparing to shift, like something was coming but not immediately discernible. In 1996 I felt a shift which I didn’t understand at the time but looking back it was never the same since.
@@dr.strangelove5708 Definitely, and for good reason too. Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which made it legal for just a few corporations to swoop in and buy up all the radio stations and TV stations, resulting in a monopoly that altered program direction, imposed "quality control" (this is why we suddenly saw an influx of young pop divas, boy bands and watered-down "alternative rock" bands), and killed genuine diverstity. Music, and the industry in general, hasn't been the same since.
As crazy as it sounds, I'm not the only person in the world to have noticed. The world ended around then. At least greatly shifted. People I've chatted with in other countries recall it being in 1998.
One of my fav home videos I’ve found on YT is titled “2:30am at a 7/11 near Disney world 1987” … it just speaks volumes as to where we were at, and where we are today… and I absolutely endear my time in the 80s, but I will always cherish growing up during the 90s. Films, music, video games, even Anime were all on top of their GAME!!! You are absolutely correct about the food BTW and fast-food was absolutely better back then, remember food-courts?? lol.. It does feel like everything started going downhill right after 9/11.
It did, because 9/11 was the official signal that the age is coming to a close. I don’t think we have 10 more years, and it does break my heart to acknowledge that. Live well now, while you still can, everyone!
Omggg how crazy…I know EXACTLY what video you’re talking about, because every so often it randomly ends up in my “recommended videos” section. I was born in 89 though, and omgggg….some people I know tell me things weren’t that much different when I was younger- but they DEFINITELY were! 💜
Yes! I find myself watching this exact video from time to time and after awhile I feel like I knew some of those people… I mean I know I didn’t… but that is how powerful that video is - and the feeling that comes with it when you are 53.
I think some of the remaking of old favorites is being done to influence those with nostalgia. Inducing depression by destroying everyone's favorite things. Common military tactic, reducing morale.
We are definitely on a different timeline and my how things have changed... In the 80s it was organic people were real they started fading in the 90s after 2012 everything switched over, to a different timeline synthetic one
Absolutely spot on man! Something very bizarre and mysterious happened in 2012. 9/11 2001 ushered in the new reality it wasn’t a terrorist attack it was a ceremony. But people and reality truly changed in 2012.
I was in second or third grade New Year’s Eve of 1989 going into 1990. My parents let me stay up for the first time to watch the ball drop. I remember thinking “man I’m going to miss the 80s I don’t want them to end”. I’ll never forget that. Even thought to myself we will never have another decade like this… and we haven’t. No surprise nostalgia is so high for that decade.
Other than the serial killer scares, failed war on drugs, AIDS hoax and nuclear annihilation hoax. Those things served to make cautious parents become much more harried and strict, really cut down on the youth's feeling of freedom, TV and telephone addiction began to trap young people in the house as well.
I was born in 1990, but I have my whole life wished I could have lived through the 1980s! I love it so much. I love the color palettes, the fashion, the music, the subcultures, everything. I feel like I lived through it somehow. I used to wonder if I did and just got reincarnated fast haha Many Millenials felt the same way though
I noticed fifties nostalgia in the Seventies. There was Amrican Graffiti and Happy Days, when I was in grade school and junior high. We had dance classes where we learned to dance for the sock hops, and there were Happy Days promotions at school, where the girls wore Bobby Socks and poodle dresses and the boys wore leather jackets and duck tails, like The Fonz. it was really a cultural phenemenon, with movies and commercial promotions, and as I said, they were promoting the nostalgia in school. In the Eighties, there was sixties nostalgia, with movies, and shows, and sixties music bands touring, and their albums being released on CD. There was some Seventies nostalgia coming along in the nineties (Like that Seventies Show), but the waves of nostalgia booms sort of stopped with the eighties. We got stuck in eighties nostalgia in the 00s. Sometimes older nostalgia would play, like Mad Men, but even if things in the new century weren't eighties nostalgia exactly, the film genres and brands of block busters, super heroes, franchises, and romance tropes just got stuck and continued without evolving much. Rap didn't pass away like Rock and Roll, but kept goung for five decades since the eighties. Most of the big grossing movie stars and popular touring bands remained more or less the same usual suspects up to the present. Nostalgia was never really promoted across the culture for the nineties, or the oughts. Promoting the fifties in 1973 was only 13 years after the fifties ended. That would be like being nostalgic for 2010 today. Good old twenty tens, happy days? Do they have a 2010 dance at the junior high, or middle school? Culturally, things aren't changing that much.
Things like the brat pack films, Dazed and confused, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, etc. seemed like the seventies high school experience, with some early eighties music. Most of them were written of Boomer high school experiences in the seventies.
I didn't like the eighties, but I was struggling with poverty in college and working, and I didn't have a TV. So I was only exposed to popular culture at grocery store checkout stands. Driving a truck in the eighties, after deregulation, was a torment.
Quantum of conscience calls this "stalled century". He's got interesting ideas although I don't got agree with all of them he definitely makes me think and expands my mind
I lend our peak to the 90s, despite comedy itself becoming “weird” then lol.. I miss things like Earth Day, family sitcoms on Friday nights, and visiting Tower Records religiously.
I've said; the 80s was the pinnacle of civilization, BUT the 90s were the highest peaks. Sports, music, film, science, social wokeness (the original, good kind).... all had their peaks in the 90s. Like music from a different decade? No worries, the 90s had songs in that style that really set the bar. But OVERALL, the 80s were better. Society seemed to be GROWING in multiple directions. Every genre was popular; in music, art, sports, etc
i was born in 85, i only remember the end but I'm glad i was there. People seemed more free to be or create anything before the internet came along and got offended.
i think that they keep re-doing (ruining) all the franchises we like (not only 1980's franchises, but also other franchises, such as star trek TNG, D&D, halo videogames, ect ect) for a number of reasons; installation of predictive programming, interweaving of elements of the narrative with neo-nostalgia, and also (pre-emptive AND retroactive) deconstruction and destruction of any sort of non-approved pop-culture seedling-elements, that the public could latch onto and grow into an actual organic culture and mythos.
Agreed… damn Disney to HADES for ruining my childhood. Ruining the Star Wars film franchise is one thing, but to eliminate all previous canon as well is just unforgiving on so many levels..
@@pauliedibbs9028 True, but they do it with every franchise; star wars star trek, halo videogames, ghostbusters, marvel, DC, indiana jones, pirates of the caribbean, doctor who, sesame street, looney toons, mass effect, disney in general, masters of the universe (he-man, she-ra), thundercats, and on, and on and on.
There is something very vital here, though I admit I can't quite grasp it yet. I turnned 52 in January, was 8 in 1980 and 18 in 1990, but the first time I ever felt my half century was when you said 1984 was 40 years ago. That is just inconceivable, not because I refuse to be old, but because in some ways 1984 feels closer to me than 2014, how is that possible and? And back in 1984, 1944 seemed like a foreign world that never really existed. Sometime last summer, I tried to get Matt at Quantum of Conscious yt to see that one reason the 1970s, 80s, and 90s felt more real than today, was simply because they were--it was still an analog world. It's like the near universal first reaction to Grogu, who is really just a bald, green Gizmo. People are longing for analog. We've become untethered. The key was that it was clear Grogu was analog, not CGI; he was the first physically real fantasy creature since maybe 1999--Lord of the Rings, even though it utilized lots of practical effects, nontheless ushered in the fake for fake's sake special effects tyranny of the present age, and nothing has been the same since, and the world has gotten far bleaker for it. I don't really now how to word any of this, however, I do not believe nostalgia is the right world for the constant retreading, it is some more like hate, like an exorcism, but in reverse, evil exercising good, but it isn't holding...once I would have agreed with you about the Loosh Harvest explanation, but now, I feel what is happening is more like what the Strangers in Dark City were doing, upsetting the humans was not their goal, they just didn't care if they hurt them. Everything they did was to try to learn from them. I think something us trying to learn something from us or about us and the experiments must not be yielding what they hoped because they keep doubling down on the same annoying strategy, but like the Strangers they lack sufficient creativity to create new stories, so they move the chairs and rearrange things over and over, manually. Piss poor demons/Archons, hardly better than Terry Prachet's Auditors. The thing about Dark City that no one ever mentions is how optimistic it is and how small and mundane the Strangers really were. Also curious their real form looked like the Coordinate from Attack on Titan and the parasite from GeyongSong Monster. I also tried to get Matt to see that despite the dark, there is also light, and we are in the middle of a game. I think maybe Zoroaster was closest to what is really going on. Maybe each side's turn is a decade long or more and can only work with what the other side did in its turn? Sorry if this was too weird 😂😢
@@Restitutor_Orbis_214 I thought of another analogy this morning, maybe it will be helpful. Maybe not. What I am leaning towards more and more with a Dark City/Strangers/experiment or antiexorcisim model of what is happening, is also shown in the OG The Grinch TV special cartoon, which unlike any other classic Holiday show has been retread constantly in the 21st century, despite no one asking for it and no one like the retreads. It is one of the only pre-1980s media products subjected to retreading, Willy Wonka being the other). Compare with Peanuts, which were simply removed from circulation. Disappeared. And the real power is clearly in the animated special, not just the words of the poem, because no one ever re-illustrates or retreads or even ever thinks about the book (again same with Willy Wonka). Like the Strangers, the Grinch conducts a failed experiment on the Whos. He doesn't try to exterminate them, he wants to change their behavior,, but his mental model of them is wrong, just as the Strangers' mental model were of their captives was wrong (some humans always woke up and finally one tuned back, because he didn't know he couldn't, and in the end, he was better at it then they were), and just as the mental models of those creating all the retreads for of us seem to be failing, they keep doubling down,, we react by metaphorically singing "HA Who Doray," though we are pretty beat down and tired like the awake Inspector in Dark City. Just like the Strangers, the Grinch works manually, while Whos sleep, some wake up, and are tricked to go back to sleep, and reality is different when they wake up agai . I don't know how it ties in with the old world, but it explains the Civil War. And why the resets always seem so shoddy. Whatever is doing this is kind of half assed. OK, I will quit harassing you.
Yes truly a Brilliant observation , yes that was it , I remember at the time always thinking Man, 1984 was when It switched from THE remnants & screams of The Vietnam War ! & people who cared about stuff working at places knowing we have a small window here people of maybe three or four years to still be about what is right or decent for the sake of it & everything Just went commercial !
Maybe that did happen, not almost. I believe in timeline splits in everyone's life. If you don't believe that could happen, or don't think deeply about how/why events happen,then you won't notice.
80s was the last decade that had a tangible feel..an Aesthetic...everything since has been a postmodern mush .... ipods are walkmans ...smartphones are Homecomputers ... biNgboNg FYL
1980s saw a lot of culture revising revisiting and reviewing the 1960s... there were some attempts at reviving 1950s top ten hits... I think FAMILY TIES has a good take on the 80s as they were happening ... I.e. a shift away from the 60s and 70s and a return to capitalist and conservative values... But I think you're right. The decade had its own organic trends and drives ... it wasn't the mass pastiche everything has been since
90s had a lot of underground movements. Specifically, I can think of Rave culture was huge. But then everything came together with the internet. Now culture is so everything that it is nothing.
@@apollyon9946 God, do I miss the rave scene before EDC and “EDM” destroyed it all… I will say tho, I did go the first couple EDC’s and they were pretty amazing; an actual carnival with diff stages and tents.
The 1980s, the decade we were bombarded with distractions to brainwash us into thinking we are free and can be anything. Yet we aren’t good enough to be our true selves. I realized in my twenties I was never going to be like Mike. 😂 Now it seems to be a good thing. Being an 80s baby, I am surprised I survived. Thanks for the laughs last night, I needed it.
'bombarded with distraction to brain wash us' i thought you were talking about now.. i don't really get your comment, they had video and early video games 3 channels on a cr tv and ground lines and telephone boxes, people had actual lives too, kids climbed trees or played tag etc it was an amazing time, look at us now, people can't even say what a woman is without crying and p1ssing their pants.. no offence to you, these are just my thoughts..
I'm 68, and the 80s was definitely the most important part of my life. Skipping the usual up / down economy, being in my early 20s that whole decade was an absolute blast ! Growing up in the 70s and being able to do almost anything compared to what the kids can do today without getting arrested, we had a Blast ! So really, for us, there was a 20 year period of Living the American Dream ! When the 90s hit, you could feel the big bad thumb coming down and all the live music bars dried up, and all we had left was Disco dis way & Disco dat way. Or even worse, Karoke Me. We were spiraling in, the good times were over, even Merl Haggard asked the question are they over for good. I miss the 80s every day. Not to mention the hot n cold running 😮 😊😊😊
@@lukeasacher yes, I had a blast in the 90s too but, at least where I was a lot of the wild n crazy fun chit was being? Attacked. Gone were the days of having an wonderful day on the lake in your... drag boat, without being bothered by the Man, and live music bars were all but gone, DUIs were the cops favorite thing to do, and all the back country, powerline, logging roads were all gated off, no more 4x4 dirt bike heaven. Compared to the 70s and 80s, freedom was being squeezed.
The 1990's were appalling. Destroying harmony. Rap or rapture or rupture destroying humanity. Taking us lower into our de-evolution as spiritual be-in-g wanting to rise and shine as the sp'ark' that illuminates Hue-man's 🌬️💙🌀
My highschool was just like Brakfast Club. You had cliquey groups like The Preppies, the Jocks the Normies, the Nerds, the Alternative New Wave types, the Come Hither big hair overdone Chicks, the Rockers and the Cool Dudes.
For me the end of Analog tv cable signal broadcasting was (for me) a truly melancholy moment ..i just new it was the end of something more then just a transition to something new ..it was closing of door on something that proved itself for two generations..now nothing is permanent (tech wise) for over four and five yr now ..just CONSTANT transition keeping up with bi nary ones and zeros
I agree... And the new DAB Radios don't receive as clear a signal as the old FM. Luckily my transistor radio at work has FM function, so I can listen without interruptions or a "Service Not Available" in the display. Same goes for wi-fi; some say it harms us in the long run (the transmissions) and it also drops out far more than a stable cable connection. It's like downgrading everything, claiming the new inventions work better. Emperor's New Clothes, and it's the same in many areas. Look at the architecture we used to be able to do. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" 😉
Both hubby and I turned 20 in 1980. We had a real blast through that decade. I was in Germany in 1981 and saw the "Iron Curtain". We rode our motorbikes all over Europe and Scandinavia during the 80s. TV was great then (it became so crap we haven't had a tv for 18 years now). Movies were great, it was worth going to the cinema then. Music was amazing, so many different genres. I'm always amazed how the younger generation are nostalgic for the 80s, even those who weren't born in that decade. Fantasy and ScFi was so popular, especially fantasy art. ❤
I am almost 55. I lived that entire decade as a teenager. Incredible and Awesome. A lot of correlation revealing now in teal time. Perhaps it is predicted programming. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.... .you children. Muhahaaa!!
I’m almost 55 myself, we still believed in things back then. Our religions, our politicians, teachers, police. Now today there is nothing to believe in, every aspect of this reality is lies and deception.
I was born in 1958, every decade has nostalgia. When I was young inthe 70s, it was for the 50s. There is a classic film youtube youtube you should see if you haven't called You Are What You Were When.
Cats on Broadway, Van Halen, Atari 2600, Laser Disc movies, Anime in America really got its start in the 80s, Lucky Charms getting a new charm every 2 or so years, New Coke vs Classic Coke, Gatorade... etc I could go on and on. Love the 80s. However being in my twenties during the 90s it was a ton a lot more fun for me.
Atari is late seventies, Nintendo is eighties. By the way New Coke sucked such much I never drank soda again, that was the most idiotic corporate decision of all time, killed soft drinks forever for me.
I was born in 77 ... The things i remember well from the eighties were saturday morning cartoons (snorkles anyone?); mork and mindy; scarecrow and mrs king; the fall guy; the karate kid (and its songs) and rocky; riding in the bed of a truck and also sleeping in the back of our station wagon on long road trips with out seat belts; jessica, the little girl who fell down the well; heaven is a place on earth and i think we're alone now and no more words; seeing the sky turn red one night and being told by the news that it was the northern lights (we lived in austin tx); watching end times movies at church every year which kept us kids up at night worried about waking up to find out we were left behind; swatch watches; guess; a song sung by some little girl being popular about child abuse and playing games with the neighborhood kids like kickball and ghost in the graveyard until 10ish at night during the summer. It was like a fantastic fever dream ... The 80s. ❤❤
This is the video I needed! I grew up in the 80s. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who thinks there was something very different and special about the 80s.
the Video Store rental era...most people now identify that with Block Buster BUT there was era pre Blockbuster that was much are local and the variety and selection varied from store to store regardless of size ..many gas stations and corner stores had wall section for rental AND the section with the curtain lol..again this was the80s era which Block Buster kinda put out business ..not completely but things definitely shifted to the true peak of the video tape VHS rental era
In the 80s , ladies wore skirts, dresses, and nylons to office jobs. Men wore ties. Now everyone looks like they are going to clean their garage, not go to work. People were smarter. Read books and magazines.
Loved this!!! Think of songs like “it’s all been done?” Or when Tom Hanks said “you’ll have seen the movie and know how it ends?” And what about the movie “The Age of Innocence” where they actually show a mud flooded town?!?! Or that madame olenska has been gone “centuries and centuries and this place is probably heaven”? 😂
The 1980s up until the 90s really culture existed that's something you did the outside of your house, you went places, movies, shopping, going out to eat and everything was concentrated in just a few different categories of what was considered entertainment and because of that concentration, those were the focal points of where the greatest amount of interest and attention was being put to, went into the development of those things, because they had to make money from it, so the people behind that we're probably some of the best minds in society to be able to grab that attention effectively. Entertainment has a sizable splintering and culture itself has been squeeze down to the individual in his own room and his own house with a very small social structure. There's no group consensus of what is culture or what is good small little social groups that exist little corners of the internet but they share no real connection. This is really up until the point where culture ended the last of it was really around the mid-90s as soon as the internet became a dominant force in society. When people talk about the 1980s Nostalgia what they're really having nostalgia for is a human culture that existed, instead of a cold artificial one that we have now.
Yes I like these explorations and how they tie in with the old world and how alot of these shows I think give clues as to what happened. Somtimes it may be one scene or even sentenace. Alot of themes seem to keep coming up in different shows and movies. Like I said on a previous comment the shows fringe and counterpart have the same theme of two earths. Same type of enemy from the movie lifeforce and stargate atlantis. I think with these clues and watching with a closer eye they are telling us the truth and challenging us to figure it out.
Great video! What song played at @1:25 ? I love it? Is it a Miami Vice remix? God - just thinking about the 80s (and 90s) just brings a tear to my eye. What a time to alive. We can never go back. Where are we?
this was a wonderful watch and listen, LA with pangs of nostalgia. I was aged 10 in 1980 and remember the feeling and vibe of the dawning decade. I’m not sure what to think in terms of a theory here, however I look forward to more time nexus efforts from you. Thanks
They were still using those in my Jr. H.S. in the late 90s, those junk Apple IIs. I remember my parents buying a Tandy 486CPU in 1990 for $3,000 and in 1998 they bought a Hewitt Packard Pentium II 400mhz, 4gbCPU for $1,200. Apple Computers never got sued by Apple Records for a reason, Lennon faked his death and became Steve Jobs.
Graduated in 1981 - Road Warrior - A Boy and his Dog - Faces of Death movies - PUNK ROCK !!!! - DIY attitude🚲🛹🎸🏴- British Peace Punk - American Hard Core.
The 80's was the best...I find myself now constantly thinking back to growing up in that time...even the cartoons of that time seemed to have esoteric meanings in them.....feels surreal almost magical time compared to now
matt from quantum of conscience channel calls it #stalledCentury and speaks often about time being stuck and even south park points this out with the #memberberries episodes
Maybe the eighties were so charming so as to be in a good contrast to what the "1984” novel supposedly predicted for that same period: to dupe people with a shred of common sense that the dystopia described in that novel was really a fiction, compared to what was really going on in the eighties, to some extent, of course. As for the eighties movies being rehashed, I think Matt from Quantum of Conscience gives a convincing argument to why that has been going on.
Was born very late 1970 (November) one the older end of Gen X really felt i got experienced (or at least remembered) most of the best of the 70s (especially the tail end 77 to 79 ) the transition pre teen yrs 10 to12 in the early 80s 80 to 82 ..seemed like it was still very much the late 70s ...for me personally the 80s become THE 80s in 1984 ..all that stuff between 84 and 89 is just locked in forever identity wise for me. ,,its kinda funny how the yrs you were born within a generation can kinda alter the perceptions of that time quite a bit .
we rarely used a back pack, no cell phones, we had fun! now evbody stares at their phones. like, what have you really done in your lives using electronics. look at today, what it is all coming to.. i liked w/out technology. but i am older. i dont see many havn fun, kids playing, drive-in movies, road drags, prom night, motorcycles and i didn't like lsd.
A decade in which our vision of society was deeply altered by introduction of new technology and all it brought. Maybe a bit like they did with the Fairs? Surely a magical decade growing up! Excellent video as always!
i always thought it curious that the make up of the Challenger crew was the same as the make up of the Nostromo crew in ALIEN ..one of those weird connected pop culture /reality things
Yeah I noticed that the 80s affected all living generations the same but after that, I noticed that the youth from the 90s-2000s can't recall a thing as a group besides the lockdowns
"Back to the Future" is was one of the movies of the 80's that really made the 80's so epic. Gen X people are so cool 😎. I was born in 74 Atl Ga, and I feel so blessed and fortunate to be of that era. Very special time for sure!
I would say the worst thing that came out of the 1980"s was the increase of "intellectual laws" it basically went rabid. Lindsey Buckinghame made a statement that when he wrote some of Fleetwood's best he was obviously listening to the "beegees". I come from a family of "publishing" direction so It was prudent for me to learn about the "copyright" laws. You could technically use previous art as long as you changed it by "20" percent. I realize that people want to be "paid" for their perceived ownership but "this" a lot of the time comes from "above, the ether...etc". When a certain time passes it should be let loose like a butterfly & have a certain amount of freedom for "others" to create off of...(however timing is important). In the end everyone getting their own lawyers to protect that they had part in backfired bc now no one can create anything without being massed micro managed. What the 80's represent is creative freedom at its finest. I have a personal joke that the law will protect intellectual property more than it's own children.
I agree. You know, underground music in the 00-10s used a lot of stuff that should fall under fair use, but as these artist got more successful, the labels have gone back and edited the songs to not include copyrighted material, and it never hits as hard..
Mtv! I have a memory and they said I would loose it if I smoked wacky tobacco. Video Killed the Radio Star. And David Bowie's Changes last song played by KMET Radio.😮
The 1980s were fantastic. Looking back on them with the nostalgia of 40 years doesn't really capture the essence of the times. Yes, there was inflation. Yes, there was a cold war. Depending on where you lived, things were sometimes quite bleak. Yet, paradoxically, there was a general uplifting spirit that existed as an undercurrent to all of that, and which is hard to describe for those who weren't there and didn't live it. This is the decade of home computers and the rise of console gaming. It's the decade that gave us fast food (that was still good, while being unashamedly cheap), the rudimentary mobile phones, shopping malls that were fun places to be, unrestricted air travel, saturday morning cartoons. I would go out in the 1980s on weekends and play in the neighborhood and come home after dark and it was safe and normal. The stereotypes of what life was like in the 1980s is both wildly inaccurate *and* unerringly true. It was a great decade, full of great contradictions.
I highly reccomend the teen classic directed by Coppola called "Rumble fish" starring Matt dillon, mickey rourke and Nickolas cage with larry fishburne and Vincent spano all at young point in their careers. It was a strange artsy film and written back to back with "The Outsiders" Both stories written by S.E Hinton.
Top Gun Maverick left me with a sense of sadness, the end of an era. Tom Cruise movies had such a big impact on the 80's, Top Gun Maverick brought back that feeling to a time of hope, a time when things seemed to matter. The fight for good and the drama of life when people use to react to it appropriately. Now with phones, we're all disconnected zombies. With the phones practically permanently attached to our hands they hit us with propaganda all day, all night, instead of just the 6 o'clock news. The 80's was an amazing time. Though in fairness every decade has had it's greatness, the 00's, even now has it's moments. Look at this incredible 2024 election with reality star Trump, and fumbling bumbling Biden. As long as you fully disassociate, this decade is a great time. The 80's though, you could just be and talk to anyone, go nearly anywhere, it was open. We were going to Mars, Moon vacations right around the corner. That optimism from Apollo followed right into the 80's, we could go anywhere. Now, you may very well not wanna go anywhere.
I've only recently came across the millennial reign. For years I dabbled in gnosticism and such, but one day all of a sudden it's like it became a bad taste. I started reading the Holy Bible, and praying in the name of Jesus Christ daily. Christ is King, the path is narrow, everything else is satanic meant to confuse.
How could You FORGET >Alien(s) movies with Sigourney Weaver >Ghost Busters >The Smurfs >Cabbage Patch Dolls >The Simpsons >Parachute Pants >Acid Wash Denim >Married With Children >Nu Wave Music >Rap & HipHop _(although started decades before, however, EXPLODED onto the scene when Run DMC went Mainstream)_
The thing that made the pre-internet era so great was boredom. While we may have hated it at the time, it forced us to actually go out and seek thrills outdoors and experience the world.
So VERY true.
There is no such thing as "boredom." It was downtime to think and be thankful for what you had. It was a time dream and fantasize about what is possible and to contemplate the meaning of it all. In 2024 there is no down time to think and dreams come prepackaged in little boxes. All there is is mindless consumerism and nobody grateful for any of it because it is all meanness. Without downtime to rationalize meaning then there is no meaning. People are just going through the motions like robots rushing off to the inevitable end where they kick the bucket.
so true. there were a few kids on the internet who had setups like the kid in War Games (1983). i knew one. but we thought they were crazy.
Absolutely
@@dumbcat I was one, and can confirm we turned out crazy. Born in '83 and using IRC by age 5. Ran BSD my fancy new mac iici, so friends without an ISP could dial up and NAT out. Parents hated it - tied up both lines at 2400.
Even then, we'd go out all day to catch frogs at the creek and get in good healthy kid trouble. When my dad showed me Mosaic, I laughed and told him nobody would ever deal with something as bothersome as a mouse 🤷♂️
Aging alongside tech has felt like a kind of existential vertigo. Perhaps someone older will reassure me that it's just life. 🧘♂️
It's painful how much I miss the 80s. I was a kid back then,and looking back, it alll seems like an alternate reality. There was some kind of indescribable magic in the air.
Agreed. It was magical. It WAS in the air.
How young? I was a 1983 kid and for the longest time I thought my fond memories as a kid happened during the 90s but it was actually the late 80s. I grew up during the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle & Nintendo generation. To this day I'll still watch entertainment from the 80s that I never seen before & I'll still enjoy it like it was new. Although I don't like modern shows at all.
@@HereticHydra TMNT was my first cinema film growing up and I’ve been a turtle fan ever since 😊 🐢
T.U.R.T.L.E Power!
RIP real special fx and JIM HENSEN!
Yeah, it's called freedom.
Those freedoms were not going to last long though.
I turned 9 in 1980. I HATED the decade. I have zero nostalgia for it, but since about 2000 I recognized that it was Peak Western Culture. It's been downhill ever since.
Born in 75. I LOVE the 80s. It was a magical time. The 80s arguably has the best movies.
I was born in 84 so I only remember 90 onwards really but I agree with you. 80s was also best for music for me too
Behave.
70's and early 80's BEST epic songs ever. & BEST Cartoons hands down. 80's to 90's Definitely the best Movies
YES, it was the golden age of movies, in my book. 84-87 were amazing years especially.
It not arguably, DEFINATELY had the best movies. Best Cartoons too! Ghostbusters, Predator, Rambo, Transformers, Thundercats, Conan, Terminator etc All original stuff, not damn adaptions. Powerful magical time, and I am glad I was a kid art the time. Born December 1976
The thing that I remember as a kid in the 80s and early 90s was that there was a lot more from earlier times still in use and in sight on the streets, in buildings and in people's homes. The 80s were a lot closer to the 40s, 50s and 60s than we are to the 80s and 90s now, everything has been retired, replaced, remodelled, destroyed and demolished. The fundamental beliefs and morals of the society are significantly different as well. The "authorities" were believed to be much more credible then and now that people can find information if they really want it, we have figured out that nothing can be trusted unless you have seen it with your own eyes to be a true fact.
Even seeing is be questioned, and it’s all by design. The pharaoh’s children are ruling from their base in SwisseeLand, they control everything.!. I believe that we are living in the short time of the deceiver
Love Truth
Seek Peace
Praise Jesus
I always say that. My childhood in the 80s/90s and my parents in the 60s? Were pretty much identical. Besides a few new gizmos we had. VCR, microwave, video games and more channels. We still did almost the exact same things our parents did. As where my kids are light years different from me as a kid
Great observation. I was watching the facts of life on UA-cam the other day and it might as well have been the 1800's. That's how far away it feels.
Ahhh the 80's was a last ditch effort to forget the sixties and seventies existed, well that did not turn out so well did'nt it? If anything we have a far stronger burn it all down generation now than even the hippies were. I hated the 80's, it was the first retro-decade where everyone was looking back not forwards, however anything is better than this strange parody of the 20th Century called the 21st.
Ignorance is bliss
In the mid 80s....When me and my friends would get pulled over with a 12 pack of beer in the back seat.. they took our beer and told us to go home.. one time the deputy put our beer in the ditch and told us we can come back tomorrow and get it. We had to be doing something really stupid to get in trouble. I feel sorry for our kids today.... police are jackboot thugs
Yeah they would go out of their way to try not to arrest you. Unless like you said. You were really being a ass
Agreed, I remember stuff like that too
They would even pull you over in some cases after you left the bar and tell you to follow them as they drove slowly to your house and give you a little lecture and warning when you got there and you'd thank them and go inside.
Not all police are.. and just look at who/what they are dealing with today.
That was before the Police were used to generate revenue.
The 80's totally feels like it was a different planet for sure!
A better planet
Yea too bad about the SIX members of the Challenger. Strange how the crew have doppelgängers who are alive, in some cases with exactly the same names (Richard Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnick, Sharon McAuliffe). What are the chances of that?
Yup!
It's Cuz They NEVER DIED!
They Actually Went Back To Their Boring Desk Jobs After Playing Their Roles In The Fictitious World Of Space Exploration- Which Has NEVER HAPPENED, As There IS NO TRUE "OUTER SPACE"!
Outer Space Is Explainative To The Fact That There ARE LANDS BEYOND ANTARCTICA AND THE MAN MADE ICE "WALL".
These Lands Exist Beyond The Poles, And, As We See All The Time, Nobody Wants Us To Know About!
Those are NOT doppelgängers!! Wake up.
@@oNeGiAnTLiE- Woosh~
@@oNeGiAnTLiEyou must live in a country where they do not understand sarcasm.😂😂
Wearing pajamas in public was unimaginable. If someone would have done that, he'd have gotten his ass kicked.
The 80s feels like the last "Real" decade we had, primarily because we didn't have the Internet. It has the best music, best movies, most varied clothing styles, and it was very punk.
Computers and the Internet didn't take over yet. If you wanted to hang out you had to get out of the house and ride your bike to your friends house.
In some ways the Internet ended that way of life in a very profound way.
It was like that in the 90s too as far as hanging out goes. Wasn’t until the last few years of that decade that people were really given the option of internet life on a commercial scale.
Ahhh the early Internet was anarchy, not quite like Web 2.0 which to me is a totally different animal.
In the 1980s the biggest hang out place was the Mall.
Music continued to be be great in Japan long after it died in the west.
Not the internet inevitably but social media destroyed a lot
I was in high school 1980 to 1984. Excellent movies, music, books, fake friends and bad fashion. I loved it!
😂 Bad fashion is so true! Ever watch Napoleon Dynamite? Talk about nostalgia! 🤣🤣🤣
Best movies for sure! ❤
79-83 for me and it was really truly fun times !
@levans3447 Yeah it was!
Sharon Stone was not in Romancing The Stone. That was Kathleen Turner.
She was the philosophers stone?
Then who was in Turning the Stone?
She was in Total Recall though, "Now look at what you've done!"
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The philosopher stone refers to the alchemical marriage of the father, mother and sun. 🤺
She was in Allan Quartermaine adventures. Which was similar to
Great topic. I do think those in control have been messing with time for ages. It feels like each decade from the 1930s to the end of 1990s had very specific culture, humour, fashion, home decor, architecture, toys, music, food and drink etc that can bring nostalgia on. The magic died in 2000s...
Damn ... I couldn't have put that any clearer myself ...
Yep.
Very interesting observation. I wish you could elaborate further.
@julianahumada475 The ... magic ... died ... in the 2000's . Something changed and it wasn't just "getting older" .
Bye bye Miss American Pie.
I was born at the very end of the Baby Boom/start of Gen X (12/64) and loved every minute of the culture until 9/11 woke me up. Thank you for this!
The early 90’s seemed like things were preparing to shift, like something was coming but not immediately discernible.
In 1996 I felt a shift which I didn’t understand at the time but looking back it was never the same since.
Funny you mention that because I remember how the direction of the things went haywire after that year in such a subtle manner.
1996 is when music started to really suck then when Britney struck it has been in the toilet ever since.
@@dr.strangelove5708 TRL was the beginning of the end for MTV lol
@@dr.strangelove5708 Definitely, and for good reason too. Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which made it legal for just a few corporations to swoop in and buy up all the radio stations and TV stations, resulting in a monopoly that altered program direction, imposed "quality control" (this is why we suddenly saw an influx of young pop divas, boy bands and watered-down "alternative rock" bands), and killed genuine diverstity. Music, and the industry in general, hasn't been the same since.
As crazy as it sounds, I'm not the only person in the world to have noticed. The world ended around then. At least greatly shifted. People I've chatted with in other countries recall it being in 1998.
One of my fav home videos I’ve found on YT is titled “2:30am at a 7/11 near Disney world 1987” … it just speaks volumes as to where we were at, and where we are today… and I absolutely endear my time in the 80s, but I will always cherish growing up during the 90s. Films, music, video games, even Anime were all on top of their GAME!!! You are absolutely correct about the food BTW and fast-food was absolutely better back then, remember food-courts?? lol.. It does feel like everything started going downhill right after 9/11.
It did, because 9/11 was the official signal that the age is coming to a close. I don’t think we have 10 more years, and it does break my heart to acknowledge that. Live well now, while you still can, everyone!
Omggg how crazy…I know EXACTLY what video you’re talking about, because every so often it randomly ends up in my “recommended videos” section.
I was born in 89 though, and omgggg….some people I know tell me things weren’t that much different when I was younger- but they DEFINITELY were!
💜
@@KandiBabyy The 90s were the best in my book :)
Yes! I find myself watching this exact video from time to time and after awhile I feel like I knew some of those people… I mean I know I didn’t… but that is how powerful that video is - and the feeling that comes with it when you are 53.
Oh yeah !
Look up the song brand new rollerskates! And you got a key!or something similar!
Omg great vid!!
I think some of the remaking of old favorites is being done to influence those with nostalgia. Inducing depression by destroying everyone's favorite things.
Common military tactic, reducing morale.
Great point.
Thats what it feels like.
Life was uncomplicated, life was good, and life was actually fun during the 80's. Things made sense. Im not enjoying my time here in clown world...
We are definitely on a different timeline and my how things have changed... In the 80s it was organic people were real they started fading in the 90s after 2012 everything switched over, to a different timeline synthetic one
Definitely a timeline split.
Or more than one.
Absolutely spot on man! Something very bizarre and mysterious happened in 2012. 9/11 2001 ushered in the new reality it wasn’t a terrorist attack it was a ceremony. But people and reality truly changed in 2012.
I was in second or third grade New Year’s Eve of 1989 going into 1990. My parents let me stay up for the first time to watch the ball drop. I remember thinking “man I’m going to miss the 80s I don’t want them to end”. I’ll never forget that. Even thought to myself we will never have another decade like this… and we haven’t. No surprise nostalgia is so high for that decade.
The last great free range generation .. gen x .. we got the best of both worlds for a time
Other than the serial killer scares, failed war on drugs, AIDS hoax and nuclear annihilation hoax. Those things served to make cautious parents become much more harried and strict, really cut down on the youth's feeling of freedom, TV and telephone addiction began to trap young people in the house as well.
@@hendo337 that’s why I meant kids .. that was the last time kids were allowed to be kids because of all that stuff
All of ‘that stuff’, never stopped anyone I knew, from living wild and free, during the 80’s. I was in middle and high school throughout the decade.
I turned 24 in 1980 and living and working in NYC it was a great time to be alive.
I was born in 1978...I LOVED and still LOVE the 80's! I have made over 20 mixtapes averaging 3 hours each! Full of hits and good vibes!
You should upload those im always looking for good stuff to play in the background
I was born in 1990, but I have my whole life wished I could have lived through the 1980s! I love it so much. I love the color palettes, the fashion, the music, the subcultures, everything. I feel like I lived through it somehow. I used to wonder if I did and just got reincarnated fast haha
Many Millenials felt the same way though
I noticed fifties nostalgia in the Seventies.
There was Amrican Graffiti and Happy Days, when I was in grade school and junior high.
We had dance classes where we learned to dance for the sock hops, and there were Happy Days promotions at school, where the girls wore Bobby Socks and poodle dresses and the boys wore leather jackets and duck tails, like The Fonz.
it was really a cultural phenemenon, with movies and commercial promotions, and as I said, they were promoting the nostalgia in school.
In the Eighties, there was sixties nostalgia, with movies, and shows, and sixties music bands touring, and their albums being released on CD.
There was some Seventies nostalgia coming along in the nineties (Like that Seventies Show), but the waves of nostalgia booms sort of stopped with the eighties.
We got stuck in eighties nostalgia in the 00s.
Sometimes older nostalgia would play, like Mad Men, but even if things in the new century weren't eighties nostalgia exactly, the film genres and brands of block busters, super heroes, franchises, and romance tropes just got stuck and continued without evolving much.
Rap didn't pass away like Rock and Roll, but kept goung for five decades since the eighties.
Most of the big grossing movie stars and popular touring bands remained more or less the same usual suspects up to the present.
Nostalgia was never really promoted across the culture for the nineties, or the oughts.
Promoting the fifties in 1973 was only 13 years after the fifties ended.
That would be like being nostalgic for 2010 today.
Good old twenty tens, happy days?
Do they have a 2010 dance at the junior high, or middle school?
Culturally, things aren't changing that much.
Things like the brat pack films, Dazed and confused, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, etc. seemed like the seventies high school experience, with some early eighties music.
Most of them were written of Boomer high school experiences in the seventies.
I didn't like the eighties, but I was struggling with poverty in college and working, and I didn't have a TV.
So I was only exposed to popular culture at grocery store checkout stands.
Driving a truck in the eighties, after deregulation, was a torment.
yes it is a tactic@@timothykuring3016
Quantum of conscience calls this "stalled century". He's got interesting ideas although I don't got agree with all of them he definitely makes me think and expands my mind
In light of all the things that went unmentioned, it seems clear that we peaked as a society in the 80's. Love See No Color.
I lend our peak to the 90s, despite comedy itself becoming “weird” then lol.. I miss things like Earth Day, family sitcoms on Friday nights, and visiting Tower Records religiously.
I've said; the 80s was the pinnacle of civilization, BUT the 90s were the highest peaks.
Sports, music, film, science, social wokeness (the original, good kind).... all had their peaks in the 90s.
Like music from a different decade? No worries, the 90s had songs in that style that really set the bar.
But OVERALL, the 80s were better. Society seemed to be GROWING in multiple directions. Every genre was popular; in music, art, sports, etc
i was born in 85, i only remember the end but I'm glad i was there. People seemed more free to be or create anything before the internet came along and got offended.
Blockbuster videos...one of the best times in 80's❤
One of the best channels available. Your contenct is always appreciated
i think that they keep re-doing (ruining) all the franchises we like (not only 1980's franchises, but also other franchises, such as star trek TNG, D&D, halo videogames, ect ect) for a number of reasons; installation of predictive programming, interweaving of elements of the narrative with neo-nostalgia, and also (pre-emptive AND retroactive) deconstruction and destruction of any sort of non-approved pop-culture seedling-elements, that the public could latch onto and grow into an actual organic culture and mythos.
Agreed… damn Disney to HADES for ruining my childhood. Ruining the Star Wars film franchise is one thing, but to eliminate all previous canon as well is just unforgiving on so many levels..
@@pauliedibbs9028 True, but they do it with every franchise; star wars star trek, halo videogames, ghostbusters, marvel, DC, indiana jones, pirates of the caribbean, doctor who, sesame street, looney toons, mass effect, disney in general, masters of the universe (he-man, she-ra), thundercats, and on, and on and on.
There is something very vital here, though I admit I can't quite grasp it yet. I turnned 52 in January, was 8 in 1980 and 18 in 1990, but the first time I ever felt my half century was when you said 1984 was 40 years ago. That is just inconceivable, not because I refuse to be old, but because in some ways 1984 feels closer to me than 2014, how is that possible and? And back in 1984, 1944 seemed like a foreign world that never really existed. Sometime last summer, I tried to get Matt at Quantum of Conscious yt to see that one reason the 1970s, 80s, and 90s felt more real than today, was simply because they were--it was still an analog world. It's like the near universal first reaction to Grogu, who is really just a bald, green Gizmo. People are longing for analog. We've become untethered. The key was that it was clear Grogu was analog, not CGI; he was the first physically real fantasy creature since maybe 1999--Lord of the Rings, even though it utilized lots of practical effects, nontheless ushered in the fake for fake's sake special effects tyranny of the present age, and nothing has been the same since, and the world has gotten far bleaker for it. I don't really now how to word any of this, however, I do not believe nostalgia is the right world for the constant retreading, it is some more like hate, like an exorcism, but in reverse, evil exercising good, but it isn't holding...once I would have agreed with you about the Loosh Harvest explanation, but now, I feel what is happening is more like what the Strangers in Dark City were doing, upsetting the humans was not their goal, they just didn't care if they hurt them. Everything they did was to try to learn from them. I think something us trying to learn something from us or about us and the experiments must not be yielding what they hoped because they keep doubling down on the same annoying strategy, but like the Strangers they lack sufficient creativity to create new stories, so they move the chairs and rearrange things over and over, manually. Piss poor demons/Archons, hardly better than Terry Prachet's Auditors. The thing about Dark City that no one ever mentions is how optimistic it is and how small and mundane the Strangers really were. Also curious their real form looked like the Coordinate from Attack on Titan and the parasite from GeyongSong Monster. I also tried to get Matt to see that despite the dark, there is also light, and we are in the middle of a game. I think maybe Zoroaster was closest to what is really going on. Maybe each side's turn is a decade long or more and can only work with what the other side did in its turn? Sorry if this was too weird 😂😢
None of us are going to get anywhere by thinking anything is too weird anymore. :) Thanks for sharing and I follow all of it.
@@Restitutor_Orbis_214 I thought of another analogy this morning, maybe it will be helpful. Maybe not. What I am leaning towards more and more with a Dark City/Strangers/experiment or antiexorcisim model of what is happening, is also shown in the OG The Grinch TV special cartoon, which unlike any other classic Holiday show has been retread constantly in the 21st century, despite no one asking for it and no one like the retreads. It is one of the only pre-1980s media products subjected to retreading, Willy Wonka being the other). Compare with Peanuts, which were simply removed from circulation. Disappeared. And the real power is clearly in the animated special, not just the words of the poem, because no one ever re-illustrates or retreads or even ever thinks about the book (again same with Willy Wonka). Like the Strangers, the Grinch conducts a failed experiment on the Whos. He doesn't try to exterminate them, he wants to change their behavior,, but his mental model of them is wrong, just as the Strangers' mental model were of their captives was wrong (some humans always woke up and finally one tuned back, because he didn't know he couldn't, and in the end, he was better at it then they were), and just as the mental models of those creating all the retreads for of us seem to be failing, they keep doubling down,, we react by metaphorically singing "HA Who Doray," though we are pretty beat down and tired like the awake Inspector in Dark City. Just like the Strangers, the Grinch works manually, while Whos sleep, some wake up, and are tricked to go back to sleep, and reality is different when they wake up agai . I don't know how it ties in with the old world, but it explains the Civil War. And why the resets always seem so shoddy. Whatever is doing this is kind of half assed. OK, I will quit harassing you.
I was quite upset when they announced that they were turning analog off and going completely digital.
I miss going to the mall and hanging out with my friends and chasing girls.
I felt a change from 1983 into 1984 even as a 23 year old
Thanks to your comment, I just made a mind blowing connection about my own life that I never saw before! 🤯🤯
Yes truly a Brilliant observation , yes that was it , I remember at the time always thinking Man, 1984 was when It switched from THE remnants & screams of The Vietnam War ! & people who cared about stuff working at places knowing we have a small window here people of maybe three or four years to still be about what is right or decent for the sake of it & everything Just went commercial !
I always felt, the last great year of the 80’s, was 1984. ‘Something’ broke in 1985…
That's because the world almost ended in World War III from September through November 1983, or did it?
Maybe that did happen, not almost.
I believe in timeline splits in everyone's life. If you don't believe that could happen, or don't think deeply about how/why events happen,then you won't notice.
80s was the last decade that had a tangible feel..an Aesthetic...everything since has been a postmodern mush .... ipods are walkmans ...smartphones are Homecomputers ... biNgboNg FYL
Agreed
1980s saw a lot of culture revising revisiting and reviewing the 1960s... there were some attempts at reviving 1950s top ten hits... I think FAMILY TIES has a good take on the 80s as they were happening ... I.e. a shift away from the 60s and 70s and a return to capitalist and conservative values... But I think you're right. The decade had its own organic trends and drives ... it wasn't the mass pastiche everything has been since
90s had a lot of underground movements. Specifically, I can think of Rave culture was huge. But then everything came together with the internet. Now culture is so everything that it is nothing.
@@apollyon9946 God, do I miss the rave scene before EDC and “EDM” destroyed it all… I will say tho, I did go the first couple EDC’s and they were pretty amazing; an actual carnival with diff stages and tents.
@@apollyon9946 people were raving in the 60s...its where the name came from ,the music was different admittedly
The 1980s, the decade we were bombarded with distractions to brainwash us into thinking we are free and can be anything. Yet we aren’t good enough to be our true selves.
I realized in my twenties I was never going to be like Mike. 😂 Now it seems to be a good thing.
Being an 80s baby, I am surprised I survived.
Thanks for the laughs last night, I needed it.
'bombarded with distraction to brain wash us' i thought you were talking about now.. i don't really get your comment, they had video and early video games 3 channels on a cr tv and ground lines and telephone boxes, people had actual lives too, kids climbed trees or played tag etc it was an amazing time, look at us now, people can't even say what a woman is without crying and p1ssing their pants.. no offence to you, these are just my thoughts..
It's true. There was a lot of trauma inflicted as well. The whole "war on drugs" was bull. We really believed it with our hearts and minds.
@@jibicusmaximus4827 I get his comment. Nothing just started recently
I'm 68, and the 80s was definitely the most important part of my life. Skipping the usual up / down economy, being in my early 20s that whole decade was an absolute blast ! Growing up in the 70s and being able to do almost anything compared to what the kids can do today without getting arrested, we had a Blast ! So really, for us, there was a 20 year period of Living the American Dream ! When the 90s hit, you could feel the big bad thumb coming down and all the live music bars dried up, and all we had left was Disco dis way & Disco dat way. Or even worse, Karoke Me. We were spiraling in, the good times were over, even Merl Haggard asked the question are they over for good. I miss the 80s every day. Not to mention the hot n cold running 😮 😊😊😊
Well I'm 64 and believe me, the 90s were way better than the 80s...
@@lukeasacher yes, I had a blast in the 90s too but, at least where I was a lot of the wild n crazy fun chit was being? Attacked.
Gone were the days of having an wonderful day on the lake in your... drag boat, without being bothered by the Man, and live music bars were all but gone, DUIs were the cops favorite thing to do, and all the back country, powerline, logging roads were all gated off, no more 4x4 dirt bike heaven.
Compared to the 70s and 80s, freedom was being squeezed.
I feel you, just turned 69 and never thought those days were going to end!
The 1990's were appalling.
Destroying harmony.
Rap or rapture or rupture destroying humanity. Taking us lower into our de-evolution as spiritual be-in-g wanting to rise and shine as the sp'ark' that illuminates Hue-man's
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I took a picture as yt erases my comments. Truth be told.
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My highschool was just like Brakfast Club. You had cliquey groups like The Preppies, the Jocks the Normies, the Nerds, the Alternative New Wave types, the Come Hither big hair overdone Chicks, the Rockers and the Cool Dudes.
For me the end of Analog tv cable signal broadcasting was (for me) a truly melancholy moment ..i just new it was the end of something more then just a transition to something new ..it was closing of door on something that proved itself for two generations..now nothing is permanent (tech wise) for over four and five yr now ..just CONSTANT transition keeping up with bi nary ones and zeros
I agree... And the new DAB Radios don't receive as clear a signal as the old FM. Luckily my transistor radio at work has FM function, so I can listen without interruptions or a "Service Not Available" in the display. Same goes for wi-fi; some say it harms us in the long run (the transmissions) and it also drops out far more than a stable cable connection.
It's like downgrading everything, claiming the new inventions work better. Emperor's New Clothes, and it's the same in many areas. Look at the architecture we used to be able to do.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" 😉
Both hubby and I turned 20 in 1980. We had a real blast through that decade. I was in Germany in 1981 and saw the "Iron Curtain". We rode our motorbikes all over Europe and Scandinavia during the 80s. TV was great then (it became so crap we haven't had a tv for 18 years now). Movies were great, it was worth going to the cinema then. Music was amazing, so many different genres. I'm always amazed how the younger generation are nostalgic for the 80s, even those who weren't born in that decade. Fantasy and ScFi was so popular, especially fantasy art. ❤
I am almost 55. I lived that entire decade as a teenager. Incredible and Awesome. A lot of correlation revealing now in teal time. Perhaps it is predicted programming. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.... .you children. Muhahaaa!!
I’m almost 55 myself, we still believed in things back then. Our religions, our politicians, teachers, police. Now today there is nothing to believe in, every aspect of this reality is lies and deception.
I was born in 1958, every decade has nostalgia. When I was young inthe 70s, it was for the 50s. There is a classic film youtube youtube you should see if you haven't called You Are What You Were When.
Cats on Broadway, Van Halen, Atari 2600, Laser Disc movies, Anime in America really got its start in the 80s, Lucky Charms getting a new charm every 2 or so years, New Coke vs Classic Coke, Gatorade... etc I could go on and on. Love the 80s. However being in my twenties during the 90s it was a ton a lot more fun for me.
Atari is late seventies, Nintendo is eighties. By the way New Coke sucked such much I never drank soda again, that was the most idiotic corporate decision of all time, killed soft drinks forever for me.
Pez
The 80 s kids. Midnite specials understood a deeper level of broadcasting in the commercials and episodes
I was born in 77 ... The things i remember well from the eighties were saturday morning cartoons (snorkles anyone?); mork and mindy; scarecrow and mrs king; the fall guy; the karate kid (and its songs) and rocky; riding in the bed of a truck and also sleeping in the back of our station wagon on long road trips with out seat belts; jessica, the little girl who fell down the well; heaven is a place on earth and i think we're alone now and no more words; seeing the sky turn red one night and being told by the news that it was the northern lights (we lived in austin tx); watching end times movies at church every year which kept us kids up at night worried about waking up to find out we were left behind; swatch watches; guess; a song sung by some little girl being popular about child abuse and playing games with the neighborhood kids like kickball and ghost in the graveyard until 10ish at night during the summer. It was like a fantastic fever dream ... The 80s. ❤❤
The 80’s were the A side, 90’s were the B side and since then it’s been remix after remix.
Great way to put it!
This is the video I needed! I grew up in the 80s. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who thinks there was something very different and special about the 80s.
Never thought we would be where we are now after how great the 80s were.
It’s so weird how it always feels like the 80’s were 20 years ago…
Almost frightening in a way that feeling persists too.......
the Video Store rental era...most people now identify that with Block Buster BUT there was era pre Blockbuster that was much are local and the variety and selection varied from store to store regardless of size ..many gas stations and corner stores had wall section for rental AND the section with the curtain lol..again this was the80s era which Block Buster kinda put out business ..not completely but things definitely shifted to the true peak of the video tape VHS rental era
The Hunger , Boxing Helena, and the Michael Mann movie that 1st showed us Hannibal Lector and the red Dragon.
Im excited for this! I was born in 1985. Seems like the 2000s are just a repeat of everything over and over again on a slightly different timeline.
Postmodernism....
Space+Cowboys = Equals 'Guardians of the Galaxy' etc
Exactly. They're trying to kill creativity.
In the 80s , ladies wore skirts, dresses, and nylons to office jobs. Men wore ties. Now everyone looks like they are going to clean their garage, not go to work.
People were smarter. Read books and magazines.
Loved this!!!
Think of songs like “it’s all been done?” Or when Tom Hanks said “you’ll have seen the movie and know how it ends?” And what about the movie “The Age of Innocence” where they actually show a mud flooded town?!?! Or that madame olenska has been gone “centuries and centuries and this place is probably heaven”? 😂
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Interesting concepts and ideas thanks again , i always enjoy your videos , appreciate your hard work . Take care
I wish i could've caught the live on this , i have so much to say at different points throughout. Great show Lucius 👍
The 1980s up until the 90s really culture existed that's something you did the outside of your house, you went places, movies, shopping, going out to eat and everything was concentrated in just a few different categories of what was considered entertainment and because of that concentration, those were the focal points of where the greatest amount of interest and attention was being put to, went into the development of those things, because they had to make money from it, so the people behind that we're probably some of the best minds in society to be able to grab that attention effectively. Entertainment has a sizable splintering and culture itself has been squeeze down to the individual in his own room and his own house with a very small social structure. There's no group consensus of what is culture or what is good small little social groups that exist little corners of the internet but they share no real connection. This is really up until the point where culture ended the last of it was really around the mid-90s as soon as the internet became a dominant force in society. When people talk about the 1980s Nostalgia what they're really having nostalgia for is a human culture that existed, instead of a cold artificial one that we have now.
Quantum leap was a great one
Yes I like these explorations and how they tie in with the old world and how alot of these shows I think give clues as to what happened. Somtimes it may be one scene or even sentenace. Alot of themes seem to keep coming up in different shows and movies. Like I said on a previous comment the shows fringe and counterpart have the same theme of two earths. Same type of enemy from the movie lifeforce and stargate atlantis. I think with these clues and watching with a closer eye they are telling us the truth and challenging us to figure it out.
1984 was an interesting year for current events plus also alot of good movies
Great video! What song played at @1:25 ? I love it? Is it a Miami Vice remix? God - just thinking about the 80s (and 90s) just brings a tear to my eye. What a time to alive. We can never go back. Where are we?
this was a wonderful watch and listen, LA with pangs of nostalgia. I was aged 10 in 1980 and remember the feeling and vibe of the dawning decade. I’m not sure what to think in terms of a theory here, however I look forward to more time nexus efforts from you. Thanks
Interesting aspect of Ghostbusters 2 was the old world tunnels that were under New York with the rivers of ectoplasm flowing through them.
Do you all remember the new Apple Computers and the Oregon Trail?
Floppies
They were still using those in my Jr. H.S. in the late 90s, those junk Apple IIs. I remember my parents buying a Tandy 486CPU in 1990 for $3,000 and in 1998 they bought a Hewitt Packard Pentium II 400mhz, 4gbCPU for $1,200. Apple Computers never got sued by Apple Records for a reason, Lennon faked his death and became Steve Jobs.
I born 1985 and I felt the 1980s From 1989 and 1980's Shadow at Early first 2 years in 1990's , 1980's is the most Magical Ambitious Decade
Graduated in 1981 - Road Warrior - A Boy and his Dog - Faces of Death movies - PUNK ROCK !!!! - DIY attitude🚲🛹🎸🏴- British Peace Punk - American Hard Core.
Punky Brewster, the facts of life, national Lampoon’s vacation ❤️ the Smurfs-Dirty Dancing-man it really was iconic.
I always thought Mathew Broderick's character in War Games was the semi-nerdy Genesis of Farris Bueller.
War Games and W and 1983 and War Games 1983 and W
The 80's was the best...I find myself now constantly thinking back to growing up in that time...even the cartoons of that time seemed to have esoteric meanings in them.....feels surreal almost magical time compared to now
matt from quantum of conscience channel calls it #stalledCentury and speaks often about time being stuck and even south park points this out with the #memberberries episodes
on purpose
I was a kid in the 80s , happy days 🎶👍
Maybe the eighties were so charming so as to be in a good contrast to what the "1984” novel supposedly predicted for that same period: to dupe people with a shred of common sense that the dystopia described in that novel was really a fiction, compared to what was really going on in the eighties, to some extent, of course.
As for the eighties movies being rehashed, I think Matt from Quantum of Conscience gives a convincing argument to why that has been going on.
My personal life was vivid in a way that it hadn’t been before and never was since. I frlt in touch with spiritual presences in a unique way.
Was born very late 1970 (November) one the older end of Gen X really felt i got experienced (or at least remembered) most of the best of the 70s (especially the tail end 77 to 79 ) the transition pre teen yrs 10 to12 in the early 80s 80 to 82 ..seemed like it was still very much the late 70s ...for me personally the 80s become THE 80s in 1984 ..all that stuff between 84 and 89 is just locked in forever identity wise for me. ,,its kinda funny how the yrs you were born within a generation can kinda alter the perceptions of that time quite a bit .
This was great break for me too, been bingin ya vids these past 24hours haha. Awesome work!
we rarely used a back pack, no cell phones, we had fun! now evbody stares at their phones. like, what have you really done in your lives using electronics. look at today, what it is all coming to.. i liked w/out technology. but i am older. i dont see many havn fun, kids playing, drive-in movies, road drags, prom night, motorcycles and i didn't like lsd.
It seemed to have a manner in which they made the moment less valuable...every kind of moment.
A decade in which our vision of society was deeply altered by introduction of new technology and all it brought. Maybe a bit like they did with the Fairs? Surely a magical decade growing up! Excellent video as always!
i always thought it curious that the make up of the Challenger crew was the same as the make up of the Nostromo crew in ALIEN ..one of those weird connected pop culture /reality things
I'm so happy I was born in the 80s!
Yeah I noticed that the 80s affected all living generations the same but after that, I noticed that the youth from the 90s-2000s can't recall a thing as a group besides the lockdowns
Late Gen X - the 80s were pure magic; I miss the optimism most of all.
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"Back to the Future" is was one of the movies of the 80's that really made the 80's so epic. Gen X people are so cool 😎. I was born in 74 Atl Ga, and I feel so blessed and fortunate to be of that era. Very special time for sure!
I would say the worst thing that came out of the 1980"s was the increase of "intellectual laws" it basically went rabid. Lindsey Buckinghame made a statement that when he wrote some of Fleetwood's best he was obviously listening to the "beegees". I come from a family of "publishing" direction so It was prudent for me to learn about the "copyright" laws. You could technically use previous art as long as you changed it by "20" percent. I realize that people want to be "paid" for their perceived ownership but "this" a lot of the time comes from "above, the ether...etc". When a certain time passes it should be let loose like a butterfly & have a certain amount of freedom for "others" to create off of...(however timing is important). In the end everyone getting their own lawyers to protect that they had part in backfired bc now no one can create anything without being massed micro managed. What the 80's represent is creative freedom at its finest. I have a personal joke that the law will protect intellectual property more than it's own children.
I agree. You know, underground music in the 00-10s used a lot of stuff that should fall under fair use, but as these artist got more successful, the labels have gone back and edited the songs to not include copyrighted material, and it never hits as hard..
You completely right about that slide with micromanagement. The most frightening aspect is how it has pervaded so much of society everywhere.
I was born 1980 and this is so accurate Miss those times a lot …for me I felt a severe shift New Year’s Day of 2000 smh 🤦♀️
Some of us felt it In 1998
In the 1999 was the end of the real world lol
Perhaps the most fun year of my life. I was 25 🙂
1998, actually
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Mtv! I have a memory and they said I would loose it if I smoked wacky tobacco. Video Killed the Radio Star. And David Bowie's Changes last song played by KMET Radio.😮
The 1980s were fantastic. Looking back on them with the nostalgia of 40 years doesn't really capture the essence of the times. Yes, there was inflation. Yes, there was a cold war. Depending on where you lived, things were sometimes quite bleak. Yet, paradoxically, there was a general uplifting spirit that existed as an undercurrent to all of that, and which is hard to describe for those who weren't there and didn't live it. This is the decade of home computers and the rise of console gaming. It's the decade that gave us fast food (that was still good, while being unashamedly cheap), the rudimentary mobile phones, shopping malls that were fun places to be, unrestricted air travel, saturday morning cartoons. I would go out in the 1980s on weekends and play in the neighborhood and come home after dark and it was safe and normal.
The stereotypes of what life was like in the 1980s is both wildly inaccurate *and* unerringly true. It was a great decade, full of great contradictions.
Remember the good old 1980s? When things were so uncomplicated? I wish I could go back there again. And everything could be the same
~ ELO
I rememeber the 80's and I nearly died there, the economy was fucked and the nineties is what saved me.
Awesome video. I loved this information. Gives me something substantial to think about.
Lyberinth, The Neverending Story, Masters of the Universe and Guyver.
Mark Hamill getting smacked around by giant monsters....
The nostalgia ❤
I was born in 1974
It was a blessing to be a kid in the 80’s
I wish our babies these days could just know that feeling everyday
He-Man is worth watching.
that feline type creature
that's floating around with
he man alot
was a bit strange i thought
I highly reccomend the teen classic directed by Coppola called "Rumble fish" starring Matt dillon, mickey rourke and Nickolas cage with larry fishburne and Vincent spano all at young point in their careers. It was a strange artsy film and written back to back with "The Outsiders" Both stories written by S.E Hinton.
88 would be the year it happens with its double infinity symbolism 💣
You make a lot of sense about 88. That was my worst year in terms of money and career. Also was the height of the crack epidemic.
Top Gun Maverick left me with a sense of sadness, the end of an era. Tom Cruise movies had such a big impact on the 80's, Top Gun Maverick brought back that feeling to a time of hope, a time when things seemed to matter. The fight for good and the drama of life when people use to react to it appropriately. Now with phones, we're all disconnected zombies. With the phones practically permanently attached to our hands they hit us with propaganda all day, all night, instead of just the 6 o'clock news. The 80's was an amazing time. Though in fairness every decade has had it's greatness, the 00's, even now has it's moments. Look at this incredible 2024 election with reality star Trump, and fumbling bumbling Biden. As long as you fully disassociate, this decade is a great time. The 80's though, you could just be and talk to anyone, go nearly anywhere, it was open. We were going to Mars, Moon vacations right around the corner. That optimism from Apollo followed right into the 80's, we could go anywhere. Now, you may very well not wanna go anywhere.
Can you cover the millennial reign?
I've only recently came across the millennial reign. For years I dabbled in gnosticism and such, but one day all of a sudden it's like it became a bad taste. I started reading the Holy Bible, and praying in the name of Jesus Christ daily. Christ is King, the path is narrow, everything else is satanic meant to confuse.
Already covered, still have a few more explorations to finish up the main account.
I have so many vhs movies from the 80's. Classics
It’s still real to me dammit
Me too
I still find it hard to believe that 1980 was only four years ago.
How could You FORGET
>Alien(s) movies with Sigourney Weaver
>Ghost Busters
>The Smurfs
>Cabbage Patch Dolls
>The Simpsons
>Parachute Pants
>Acid Wash Denim
>Married With Children
>Nu Wave Music
>Rap & HipHop _(although started decades before, however, EXPLODED onto the scene when Run DMC went Mainstream)_
The Tracey Ullman show, where The Simpsons originated.