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Nov. 27th, 2008 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_fantastic_ms_foxTaking the financial crisis stupidity-consequence into view alongside Obama's presidenty, and the
Have we entered one of those transitional periods that separates one culture's "decade" from the next? A point where one period in a place like say Anglo Northamerica is defined by its divergence from the prior? Where that "decade" actually begins? Like how much of what pop culture associates with "the sixties" has more to do with the period between 1964 and 1975 than it does with 1960-1969?
Will the 00's begin with the late 90's dotcom bust, Bush's presidency, the end of the Canadian Liberal Party monopoly, or the attack on the World Trade Center? And with the change in American leadership, Russian leadership, the global markets, and the Iraq war, will people's idea of "this is what the Northamerican 00's were like" end roundabout now?
Has the next decade already started?
Have we entered one of those transitional periods that separates one culture's "decade" from the next? A point where one period in a place like say Anglo Northamerica is defined by its divergence from the prior? Where that "decade" actually begins? Like how much of what pop culture associates with "the sixties" has more to do with the period between 1964 and 1975 than it does with 1960-1969?
Will the 00's begin with the late 90's dotcom bust, Bush's presidency, the end of the Canadian Liberal Party monopoly, or the attack on the World Trade Center? And with the change in American leadership, Russian leadership, the global markets, and the Iraq war, will people's idea of "this is what the Northamerican 00's were like" end roundabout now?
Has the next decade already started?