What was western society like before 9/11?

What was western society like before 9/11?

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Fucking paradise compared to today

If 9/11 had never occurred how much different would western society be?

there was no western society before 9/11

not as niggerish

You didn't get molested at airport security.

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Way the fuck better, OP.

Most of my life was spent prior to 9/11, and these last 17 years have been pure fucking awful for western civilization

Yeah but anyone born before like 2004 remembers Blockbuster, right?
I just turned 22 and I sure as hell remember going there well into middle school.

Los Angeles had far fewer Mexicans.
They weren't eating street food on the streets like animals.
You could go to restaurants and see white staff.
Everything was so safe I thought of firearms ownership as a hypothetical that I wouldn't ever need to consider.
You could tell jokes without fear.
Architecture hadn't gone full Communist Bloc yet (see Santa Monica for details).
It wasn't too bad.

It's not the 9/11 itself what changed the world, but the events that followed.

In two words: blue pilled

you're lying
rap was, and still is, super fucking popular

Same, and i'm a rural retard introvert. BB was shit though, i'm glad it's gone. All the candy/popcorn was more expensive than even gas stations. Absolutely nuts.

Still though, mom, dad, me, before their divorce, would all go to block buster, we'd each get a movie, then stop at wal-mart and all get a snack, and go home and binge all the movies in a row. Comfy af.

>Wish we could turn back time
>To the good old daaays.

pretty comfy

Felt a lot different, relaxing in a away.
After 9/11, especially today, everyone is so on edge about everything.
I remember 2002-2008 all blended together. In that span, a lot changed. People started to get very outspoken, from what I noticed.

I stole so many games from blockbuster. I'm probably the reason they went out of business.

>canadian
>being a faggot nigger
>imagine my shock
I tried my self to be honest, but my dad wouldn't let me be a nigger.

Yeah there was a certain comfyness about Blockbuster that was very early 2000s to me, it was kinda shitty but I'm glad I got to have that experience of looking through ridiculous looking movies with my brother and being able to rent games.

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this.

I think for most it's largely the association of easier times. Like I mentioned, my parents weren't divorced at that time, and things were generally ok, and I was about 11. What the fuck did I have to worry about? Block buster was shit, but the times it existed in were not for me anyway. Kind of bizarre but there it is.

I was born in 1986. It was honestly incredible. It was post Cold War, pre 9-11. Being a child then was literally the most carefree experience you could imagine. People still genuinely believed in the American dream, people had big goals for themselves, and the internet was still super new and provided a lot of promise.

Kids still played in the street, video games had to rely on story lines to be good, people's goal in life was still just to get married and start families. There was some bullshit regarding the drug war but that shit was mostly relegated to the hood.

At this point, 17 years later we've all become desensitized to all the wars we've gone to, getting robbed blind by bankers, and nobody seems interested in starting families anymore. People are angry, and justifiably so. American society is super fucking decadent, and I'm waiting for it to just fall apart already.

>90s.jpg
>the goonies
Yeah, no.

People/companies/govt actual cared about privacy rights. There were consequences if you violated this scared trust.

There were consequences. We are living now in a post consequence era. Even plebs have never faced so few consequences. It was when you still could feel comfy for "doing the right thing".

With a bright future

The dreams of a misguided generation which lead to our present reality are retiring.

It was the 80's on sugar instead of cocaine.

SO who'll be the first studio to go straight to streaming 4 weeks first release?

The whole break between initial release and DVD release was dictated by the amount of time it took to mass produce Cassettes and then Discs. There's literally no reason anymore to have a huge break between initial release and DVD release.

First of all it was inevitable that America would come crashing down at one point.

But I genuinely have no sympathy for them after what they did in the Middle East, had they just stuck to bombing caves in Afghanistan things would be far different.

Actually it was alright. I was a freshman in HS when 9/11. I still remember Blockbuster.

Did that Blockbuster have no exit? It's supposed to be near the cashier.

didn't they do that with The Interview since they had that whole "korea will kill you if you screen this" shit?

there was a lot less brown people about.
For some reason our government has a hard on for bombing people and then flooding our communities with them.

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>Blockbuster's magnetic-tape-and-popcorn smell on a Friday night

institutional racism was even more rampant back then than it is today, but no one even talked about it

Same, I miss laying on the couch on a Saturday night, watching some shit horror movie with my dad with a big bowl of popcorn, then a comedy/action with my mom and dad, then I would go play PS1 while my parents watched a sappy romance movie.

>They are both in their 60s now

This, and it was great.

I remember wanting to work at a blockbuster so bad when I became old enough for a job but you had to be 18..turned 18 and they had all closed by then.

When did the optimism die exactly?

I could see that. "90s men" were pretty soft and soyish.

Prob like 2004 when the Iraq war really kicked off but idk I'm too young to say forsure.

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Blockbuster were cunts Hollywood Video 4 life nigga.

Also everything was better the kids these days have no idea what was and could have been.

There was still some pussy hair to be found.

kind of true, every western country was pretty unique. now they're all kinda the same.

wtf?
I lived in Santa Ana in the early 90s and it was gunfire and Banda all night every night. and we comforted ourselves by saying "at least its not as bad as LA"

Yeah, I was a sophomore. Shit was pretty nice. I remember when Eminem was the big scary public figure that parents were worried about BAKA.

yeah, "sensitive ponytail guy" was absolutely a thing.

fuck you user

Pretty fuckin identical to the way it is now, only with lower resolution. We don't actually progress, we just rot slowly in this same toxic cocktail of pastel-colored plastic shit and porn. The social fabric is a burnt husk, you're all living on a post-modern plantation. Don't expect a sudden collapse, the collapse has been slow and deliberate so its beneath your threshold of noticing it. You'll all ease into your own hell-on-earth over the course of a few generations, not all at once, to avoid any kind of resistance.

You'll desperately purchase your way into your own grave, materialist scum.

>First of all it was inevitable that America would come crashing down at one point.

You first.

>Don't expect a sudden collapse, the collapse has been slow and deliberate so its beneath your threshold of noticing it.

not true, 0%-public-support-flag-user. if you leave the country for 1-2 years then come back, you notice how downhill things become.

Fffffffuuuuuuck, nostalgia bomb. Video stores were the shit. Row upon row of old genre movies (some that aren't even truly on Blu ray or DVD) with their garish 90s cover art to pour over.

Truly a haven for oldies, rarities and goodies.

mashable.com/2014/12/02/80s-shopping-malls/

Says the Brit fag who's country terrorized the world for hundreds of years.

more optimistic and less frightened about terrorism, at least in europe. at the time, public spaces were secured by extra security on celebrations days.

usa was mostly seen as an ally by the public before 9/11 and the iraq war (2003). since the iraq invasion, most europeans are sceptical towards the usa government and their geopolitical goals.

We had toys in boxes of cereal

>0%-public-support-flag-user
oh look, its a "White but also BASED Mestizo Castizo Hapa" PR-Nationalist. Got any good paywall podcasts I can use to "redpill" my friends on BASED gays with?

i wanted to write: were not secured

>terrorized the world

oh no, people had low-to-no taxes and stable contracts, whatever became of them?

Better

your memeflag polls around 0% public support. if you weren't retarded, you would rebrand your ideals.

I remember getting warned by my mum to be wary of any IRA activity so we still had to be on the lookout in the UK

I think you misspelled modernized

the change didn't happen in 9/11
it was around '07 or '08

2005 was the last good year.

Remember star ocean 2? I do user... I do... I’m older than you though and realistically we were on the ass end of outdoor unsupervised fun... parents were told by kike news every person was going to swoop us up and fuck our tender kiddy asses...

Fuck, this post is way too accurate.
>At this point, 17 years later we've all become desensitized to all the wars we've gone to, getting robbed blind by bankers, and nobody seems interested in starting families anymore. People are angry, and justifiably so. American society is super fucking decadent, and I'm waiting for it to just fall apart already.
This is the sad truth. It's basically one of those situations where you have to make a mess to clean a bigger mess. Here's hoping we actually have the balls as a nation to do something about it.

yeah, that was part 2. by then, it was clear we were in a new place.

however, i think it's swinging back towards phase 1, when 9/11 happened. hopefully we can keep pushing back to before 9/11

>9/11 was a nightmarish wakeup call
>Iraq was a grim reminder of the world outside of fortress America
>Obama was the opening of Pandora's box when all the crazies came out of the woodwork, the true nail in the coffin

Now they have man buns.

18-year-old kids old enough to fight in a US war have never known a time when the US wasn't at war.

Fuckong Amazing. I wish I cpuld fucking time travel

>after what they did in the Middle East
you mean exactly what your country did a century earlier? do you not remember the part of history where your people owned 40% of the world and exploited it for resources to the point that barely half the countries you ruled and profited from are functioning states?

Innernets was like Sup Forums desu. Spend time in the wayback machine and you'll find assloads of sites talking about building explosives for hobbies, making guns and chemistry shit, people of different political views laughing about it all together. 9/11 wiped that and polarized everyone

I remember people being scared caller ID would ruin secrecy... more recently i remember scares that "digital converter boxes" had cameras and microphones... now we walk around with a 3 HD cameras, microphone, GPS, fitness trackers in our pockets and we pay for it and cant wait for the new one to come out.

That never made sense to me. Whats wrong with 15 year olds working at Blockbuster. Its not like they were renting pornos

It was encouraged to call people out on acting like a fag.

Apparently, there are still 5 blockbusters in alaska and 2 in oregon. the last one in texas just closed last month

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_LLC#2015–present:_The_post-Kelly_Era

People DEFINITELY valued privacy way more back then. I don't know how they got away with so much so fast.

>What was western society like before 9/11?

Same as it is today. Westerners allowed the doors open to foreigners, niggers were niggers, progressives dominated our government, education system and what not, baby boomer senates/representatives were in the same position of power they were 3 decades ago not fucking retiring like they should be doing ect.

I think the better question is:
>What was Western Society like before the 1960's?

Keep in mind Le 90's Kidz are the same 20's-30's Bugman/Soyboys getting hysterical over a childrens videogame console like they did when they were young. They wish to live in a continuous neverland.

comfy
it's like a distant time we can never return to

under-18's would be more likely to be fuckups. like giving an alcoholic the keys to the liquor cabinet, it's easier to trust a 18+ to be responsible instead

It was a lot better. Gas was cheap, we were at peace, everyone wasn't afraid of the entire world. 9/11 was called by one writer as the "day that innocence died", which is pretty accurate.

9/11 was the catalyst though. You never would have gotten the PATRIOT Act passed or the war in afghanistan supported without it, and the whole Iraq war was Bush Jr's global offensive.

Hell, even more minor shit (like the anthrax attacks) were consequences of 9/11. Scientist with financial interest in the anthrax vaccine sent it out because he saw the culture of fear after 9/11 and figured he could get massive demand for it by killing a few people.

No matter what you say, it used to be objectively better.
Remember, progress only moves in one direction :^)

are you saying that Blockbuster Rentals orchestrated 9/11?

tranquil

>Muzzie sympathizers

As if the Muslims didn't conquer all of the fucking Middle East kicking out the Byzantine Empire and then attempted to invade Europe. I have no fucking sympathy for the fucking Muslims. Fuck them and fuck their shitty ass book.

When the Turbo Niggers landed.

We could still embrace different ideas without losing the ability to call bullshit on pure stupidity. It was cool.

Lots of alpha males and dime pieces back then. In NYC, Chicago, and LA, every girl you say on the street looked like a model.

Today, it's full of betas, traps, butch dykes, and fatties

s11 is what made mossad a household name in a negative way.

Always sort of regarded the libtards of that era as successfully terrorized. If the object of terror is to instill fear, freeze any effective response long enough for you to get what you want, including conquest, then they were all victims

It still was a pile of shit, you were just too young to realize it. The LA riots of the early 90's were some of the greatest chimpouts we had since the 1960's. Baltimore and Ferguson never became that bad during the riots. Crime in the inner city was a lot worse as well during the late 80's and 90's and if it wasn't for Rudy Giuliani cleaning up the nigger problem, NYC would've still been a run down mess in most places.

>y-yeah but a pile of shit is a lot more tastier than two pile of shits!

If you want to revisit any period of America, visit the 1950's and make sure Kennedy never got into office.

I remember visiting the cockpit of a plane while it was in flight as a kid
Now I have to take my shoes off and be anally probed by some guy wearing a turban (he is there because of the diversity quotas), just to get inside a plane, while Muhammad and his friends get into first world countries with little to background checks, receiving free money

less complicated

Lol, that was some edgy shit.

Its nice to think outside of the box though. I look in all the time. I disagree with you that our fate is a slow and steady fermentation though. Life is lived in the moment, the durability of the self is not related to the current political times. If life sucks its because you’re doing it wrong.