I was browsing r/nosurf the other day (it's for quitting the internet), and someone posted about the 90s - emulating the balance of using technology without it using us. It's certainly an interesting idea, and it ties back with what your review mentions. I will give the book a go, thanks for the suggestion.
On a similar note, I was wondering if there exists a similar "biography" of gen Z. How they think, why and what will happen with this generation in the future. I have the terrible misfortune of being gen Z, so gaining some perspective on that would be useful.
Interesting. I was born in the 80's and came of age in the 90s. I was never a big fan of my generation back then, I was one of those old lefties who missed the idealism of the 60s/70s generation and lampooned the selfish narcissism and, what I felt was the apathetic fatalism of my generation. Admittedly, I didn't have the happiest childhood, so that coloured my perceptions.
I never thought I'd be that nostalgic for the 1990s, and I do think we are now paying a price for our hubris then, but some of the trends in youth culture today really make me reappraise the 1990s. The young activists of today cause me to miss the culture of indifference that characterized the 1990s. And I've moved a lot politically since those days. Now that I have children of my own I'm trying to instil resilience in them, given the pervasiveness of victimhood in woke culture. But, I also know that I'm getting on, and some of my issues with contemporary YA culture is probably just the detritus of age.
I was browsing r/nosurf the other day (it's for quitting the internet), and someone posted about the 90s - emulating the balance of using technology without it using us. It's certainly an interesting idea, and it ties back with what your review mentions. I will give the book a go, thanks for the suggestion.
On a similar note, I was wondering if there exists a similar "biography" of gen Z. How they think, why and what will happen with this generation in the future. I have the terrible misfortune of being gen Z, so gaining some perspective on that would be useful.
Either way, excellent review. Thanks!
Interesting. I was born in the 80's and came of age in the 90s. I was never a big fan of my generation back then, I was one of those old lefties who missed the idealism of the 60s/70s generation and lampooned the selfish narcissism and, what I felt was the apathetic fatalism of my generation. Admittedly, I didn't have the happiest childhood, so that coloured my perceptions.
I never thought I'd be that nostalgic for the 1990s, and I do think we are now paying a price for our hubris then, but some of the trends in youth culture today really make me reappraise the 1990s. The young activists of today cause me to miss the culture of indifference that characterized the 1990s. And I've moved a lot politically since those days. Now that I have children of my own I'm trying to instil resilience in them, given the pervasiveness of victimhood in woke culture. But, I also know that I'm getting on, and some of my issues with contemporary YA culture is probably just the detritus of age.