A Conversation for What it Was Like in the 1990s
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John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Started conversation Oct 10, 2004
The thing that makes the 1990's significant is that it was the decade in which the world had to adjust to living with one superpower, the USA. This was a pretty big adjustment for people who had lived in a world that hung in the balance of power/terror between two superpowers, the USA and the USSR.
Hem lines may have gone up or down - I can't remember - but they're always doing that; that's the nature of hem lines. Maybe something interesting happened in pop culture. But, if something 'interesting' wasn't always happening in pop culture, it wouldn't be pop culture.
A world in which one state is so much more powerful than the rest that it more or less dictates the way our lives will take shape, for better or worse, wherever we live... well, that was something new. It's something the world is still coming to terms with.
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