What was society like in a pre 9/11 world?

What was society like in a pre 9/11 world?

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Cozy and white while I play on my playstation.

fuck man. this.

Peace

Best days of my life. The mentality of everyone changed overnight. It sucks.

not much different

The general mood was far more optimistic in America. The 24 hour news cycle, white self-hatred, and degenerate hedonism all accelerated post-911.

Beautiful the internet then was a beautiful place.

It was a simpler time, whites accepted diversity culture, listened to rap unironically, and the hipsters we still just the new kids on the block...

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Everyone watched CNN. News was boring. The big story before 9/11 was a missing DC intern, chandra levy.

Then 9/11 happened, and 24/hr cable news stations became a big business. and of course we had the piece of shit neo con george w bush plotting war in the middle east.

It really was until kike corporatism formed a death grip with the help of (((social media))).

Now the marxism has gone into hyper overdrive to sell you crappy sandals and Pepsi.

it was lovely. muslims were actually treated with moral reverence because thy took religion seriously. getting laid was easier. only worries were how to bang a chick and where to score weed and how to become a rockstar. then that 911 shit kind of showed us that we Do have enemies and the world is a divided place

Cosy as fuck

To someone born in 1999 perhaps.

It was pretty good. The US didn't bomb a different country everyday and everyone seemed to think Bill Clinton getting a BJ was a big deal.

It was better because the internet wasn't streamlined and the sjw / kike menace as still incubating.

how did you guess the exact year of my birth? nice digits

better

Pre 9/11: Back then Demons, Orcs and Aliens were enemies in video games, and they were portrayed as vicious monsters that wanted to destroy Civilization and needed to be killed almost at all costs.

Post 9/11: They're portrayed as misunderstood creatures that are perhaps more in tuned with the land/space/hellish plane of existence, better than man and perhaps we should listen to what they have to say.

Basically, society got a whole lot gayer.

Airports were super convenient and you could welcome people at the gates when they got off.

as above so below

below has become above and above has become below

I didn't guess. I knew.

People seemed a lot more civil, more friendly and outgoing.
Playing CoutnerStrike and downloading pron on Kazaa, it was a far simpler time.

My biggest worry was who was gonna steal my star in mario party.

alright, what month and day was i born on then if you know so much?

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Gasoline was often under a dollar a gallon

what is a 9/11?

so the bible is right then?

Spotted the Gnostic.
Know thyself senpai.

Better

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That isn't what AASB means

AASB is supposed to demonstrate how physical reality operates by the same rules at microscopic levels up to the size of Galaxy clusters

fuuuuuck this feel

So true

Was early 20s. College was chill, a little SJW shit but it wasn't everywhere

No military culture. Economy was ok, small recession but not like OMG were fux0red.

Was way better desu

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please tell me it still functions

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>be me
>wake up. The date is Sept 10th 2001.
>never really thought more than 5 seconds about Muslims in my life.
>life still sucks.

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I was 17 when 9/11 happened.

I was never political before that point. I didn't give a shit about Muslims or any foreigners. I thought it would be cool to visit Germany one day.

Political Correctness never even crossed my mind.

A lot has changed.

It felt like we were more prosperous and optimistic back then. People unironically believed in the american dream. Honestly it felt like we woke up after 9/11. We became more cynical, more realistic, and more negative overall. I can't make an objective observation however since I was 11 at the time so that might be the time my views on the world changed regardless of 9-11.

I think we can all agree that there is a pre-911 and a post-911 world. In a way it feels like the terrorist won. We pretend we bravely defied them but we just became cowards.

The funny thing is that right after 9-11 things were still good. The further you get from 9-11 the worse things get. They haven't gotten better. Again maybe it's just my age but the last good year I remember was 2007. That was around the time the iphone was introduced. That was the real end of a great era.

The first couple of years after 9/11 was ultra-patriotic. I even tried joining the Marines are 9/11 until my redpilled father talked me out of fighting for kikes.

I remember immediately after 9/11 I was a Freshmen in college and advocated for the patriotic act. My argument was literally "If you are not a criminal you have nothing to worry about".

I was a total fucking dumbass. Thank Christ for my father.

Only thing that really changed was airport security.

Obama becoming president was the biggest fuck you to society. His presidency was what caused the massive left-right divide in America.

>His presidency was what caused the massive left-right divide in America.

Breh. This is way beyond Obama.

Seriously. Airport security pre 9/11 was mall cop tier. Flying into LaGuardia, the taxi drivers were whiter than the security guards. The taxi drivers spoke better English too.

White genocide was in an earlier stage of development and terrorism was just a meme.

The left hated Bush with an extreme passion. They never forgiven him for beating Al Gore and the Iraqi fuck up mixed with Cheney just infuriated them that much more.

I can't believe that the Bush presidency is so unknown to people here. It's crazy how many years have flown by since Bush derangement syndrome.

>What was society like in a pre 9/11 world?
if you're talking bout the 90's, yeah.. they were good, real good. The 80's, not so much..

although even the gritty 80's had advantages we lack today, mainly being freedom.

Redpill: this has been going on since the late 1800s. Two-party system is a degenerate approach.

LETS FIND ANTIFA CRIMINAL HERE

.. and light a smoke without being cuffed and jailed.

who gives a shit

gtfo

It was good.

I think the best contrast hilighter is Independence Day and Speilberg's War of The Worlds, or at least their themes and tones.

The story's the same, but on one hand you've got a bright uplifting movie that really captures the "End of History" feeling the end of the Cold War brought, the deaths of uncountable numbers isn't really delt with in a personal way, you see the US military get its ass kicked, and the effects are clearly not

On the other hand you've got a movie that's helplessness incarnate, and takes a lot from 9/11 (characters asking if it's terrorism, Cruise arriving home covered in ash and dust), the sense of loss is alot more emphasised, and the times you see the military fighting they only imply offscreen that they're losing. There's even an emphasis on people not knowing the enemy they're fighting with people suggesting this was planned for millions of years.

a historic event you guys missed, because you were busy killing each other in the former Yugoslavia.

I don't disagree. I am saying this is the attitude in the forefront. This is what every single normie was observing at this point.

True

bruh, those pics are fantasy depictions of the 50's... lol gtfo

>y, and the hipsters we still just the new kids on the block...

So true

>It felt like we were more prosperous and optimistic back then

was there something in the water?

Wtf

Yes. I used to show up for my flight 15 minutes before it took off.

Not even kidding.

Way less concerned about pay. Things didn't seem as tight and unaffordable. Liked my bank and didn't dred opening my statement each month to find out why they stole my money thru fees and shit. Didn't have to switch Banks constantly. Gas was too expensive at $1.30 a gallon. Healthcare was better and affordable. Didnt have 7-10 year loans for a POS Hyundai. Believed the American Dream was true.

>Again maybe it's just my age but the last good year I remember was 2007. That was around the time the iphone was introduced. That was the real end of a great era.
you should've experienced the time before cell phones as a whole, before the internet even.

that, was freedom.

Gen X was the last generation to experience that, the last generation of the old world.

>inb4 no fluoride
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A sense of optimism. Economy wasn't shit and things were still affordable. No wars we were entangled in as far as normies were concerned.

Political correctness was an extremely minor element. The internet was just budding up as far as its reach was concerned. Not everyone had cell phones and thus were not constantly plugged in and creating anxiety for themselves.

90's and before 9/11 were comfy times for Americans.

>not n64

Fucking degenerate

>Airport security pre 9/11 was mall cop tier.

This is true. I used to go thru security with an 1/8 of weed on me regularly.

Never got searched it patted down. Never.

Muslims didn't exist, they weren't the boogie man they are now.

women with shoulder pads everywhere

Feels like it was that way everywhere. Friendlier people, but not to the point of retardation, as in, bending over for rapefugee mudshit barbarians while completely ignoring their own people.

George W. Bush was the fucking devil.

That cocksucking fuck put a bullet in the middle class's head, stuck his dick into the Middle East accelerating all our problems and was so shitty that we got a commie nigger who followed him. I can't even go on about everything he fucked up. Young fags who weren't there don't know.

There is creepy stuff in all those pictures. I think the 50's were secretly fucked up.

their necks are so thin and their heads are fucking huge

Forrest Gump?

We also were still a 75% white country in 2001. Which shows what is happening and why.

This, it makes me sick seeing parents raise their kids with a goddamned tablet in the kids face 24/7. We didn't get dial up internet until I was in 8th grade. My childhood in a small town was fucking awesome. Rode my bike everywhere until we got mopeds. BB Gun wars, fireworks, putting stuff on the rail tracks. Nobody cared when we'd take shortcuts through backyards. I feel old and out of touch and I'm only 31.

I remember being around urban blight and high crime, it sucked. Now everything is gentrified.

The thing that strikes me looking back is that you didn't hear the fucking words muslim and islam 24/7. In GB Islam was a potential problem going back to the Rushdie fatwa, this was clear. The Taliban were a standing joke like best korea, Afghanistan a cult joke, the worst place in the world. But it was a minor nuisance, office banter level.
That all changed overnight, but if you weren't around back then you have to understand the crushing inevitability of the Afghan war, nobody was surprised when the first missiles went in, and nobody was particularly outraged. What the fuck else was going to happen? It all really went to shit with Iraq, which is why we won't do anything now when the British army should be planning to join the assault on Raqqa, thanks Bush.

That's just how kids look and plus it's also what people look like when they are not fat fucking shits or aren't pumping themselves up with roids.

waste

Couldn't agree more. The divide in American began during the Bush years.

Most of Rockwells whole portfolio is about portraying everyday america and maybe a little propaganda

Those men would be accused of being pedos now :(

Backpacks weren't allowed into concerts because of drugs and alcohol concerns.

You're not a man if you didn't grow up with Mario Kart

You would have been a jeb turtle

>not allowed to paint nice things

>I feel old and out of touch and I'm only 31
.. and I'm 41, so yeah... I know that feel.

stay strong brother, stay weird and free.

we had spyro.

With his election. I still hear liberals cry about not being allowed a 5th recount of the Florida votes.

The whole hanging chad thing and the MSM response empowered liberals to actually believe that losers are winners.

It's weird. I understand that everybody is nostalgic for their younger days (I just turned 30), but I seriously feel the world was a completely different place.

It could just be the slow slide of degeneracy, and this is how our grandparents felt when subjected to the satanic horros of Elvis or whatever, but I think there is more too it. It's not even JUST the disgusting push to normalize mental illness, its everything.

The way the news is reported, the way adults behave, the quality of entertainment (i'd posit even pornography was of a much higher quality, just look at vintage Playboy's, its an aesthetic experience as well as sexual).

I'm going to set aside some time and ponder this. Take time to coalesce my thoughts into a structure of some sort. I've been thinking about it for awhile.

But again, it could just be me getting old.

Reminder that CTR/Shareblue/and SONY shills from Sup Forums are the same actors since 2008

The chinese are assfucking the internet.

After 9-11 people came together. After every terrorist attack now people just fight and bicker.

The economy crashed after 9-11. Before that there was a boom.

In school the day before 9-11 nobody had cell phones. After 9-11 all the kids were trying to learn how to use their new cell phones.

everyday America in the late 50's, seen through the foggy lenses of nostalgia, yeah.
that's not what I wrote user, I simply pointed out that a romantic depiction of 50's Americana has shit all to do with the topic at hand.
>b-but the 50's are part of the pre-9/11 world!
yes, and so are the 1750's, but we're talking about the time immediately before.

i miss the cars of the 90s, obama is a fucking retard for that "cash for clunkers" bullshit. and niggers ruined the rest.

RIP in peace Blockbuster Video

You could drive up to any airport and be flying yourself later that day.

1) Movies were better and actually a social activity. Sure, Netflix and chill can get a man laid, but there was still "Blockbuster and chill", when you actually had to physically go there, sometimes it had free popcorn while you were browsing, and you and roastie banter over which movie to pick out. It was fun. Of course, socially you would all go as a group, didn't have to be cool people, just whoever wants to see a movie. Cinemas now are much different and gayer.

2) Airports. Self-explanatory. I feel as if it was cheaper as well, and you can bring a bunch of shit as carry-on. Pretty much fucking every flight I did was just carry on.

3) People were better. I use social media IN SPITE OF my hatred for it, and I think there are millions of me. Not just autists, but een roasties I've fucked admit as much, we just feel compelled to do this. There was an awful lot more physically meeting up with people. Also birthday parties were actually a thing, because people you hadn't seen for awhile would pop by, even briefly to say hello and catchup, instead of currently sending a FB message.

It was a better time for sure. Economy wasn't GREAT, but it was better from 2008 to present, for sure.