The ’90s weren’t that great – by Cartoons Hate Her.

Wow, this is powerful stupid. Just fucking idiotic.

She completely and totally misunderstands and barely acknowledges what people miss about the 90s and why it was not exactly a completely better time, but a very different time with an extremely dissimilar feel as compared to now.

This article is ragingly fucking full of shit, I’ll state again for the record. Just clownish in all the worst ways by someone who was just a bit too young to get the full 90s experience. This profoundly clueless article could’ve actually been good but she was simply not smart enough nor perceptive enough to write it.

When someone pens something like this that misses the entire point of the discussion, it causes one to wonder why did they bother? Why produce obviously shoddy pap? Is fighting against straw men really that much fun?

Anyway, the reason people miss the 1990s is that it was an incredibly optimistic time. They miss that feeling. The Berlin Wall had fallen; Communism had been defeated and the pall of nuclear war no longer hung over all of us. We thought we could fix the world and that we all were on the verge of a better future, unburdened by history and all its hatreds.

This feeling, this spirit, was everywhere then. Yes, even among adults (it’s not just childhood nostalgia). Everyone, nearly, believed it, felt it, wanted it to be true and wanted to make it come true.

That’s why people look back so fondly on the 90s and miss that time so much. They miss it as much as that article misses the point.