Did anything really change since the 90's ?

[Brazoo]

I’m a firm believer that we’ve been living the same 20 years over and over for a LONG time.... back to the 40's at least. The same events, attitudes and styles come around and around.... slightly different each time, but still there. Calling them the 50's and 60's works. I usually call them the 70's and 80's, since that’s when I was alive.

Yeah, I get your point there's for sure a cyclical effect for a lot of things - like the ebb and flow of attitudes that shift the vote towards republicans or democrats (not to introduce politics - just looking at how the vote goes back and forth).

I think it's flawed to look at decades anyway because the 10 year period is arbitrary. A lot of pop culture fads cycle through quicker than 10 years - but because of our culturally driven desire to round things off in 10s we attribute things that lasted 4 years to belong to a decade. It skews our perception of things - but it's not a genuine thing. I don't think it has much effect.

Young people drive trends to a huge degree - and when there are larger populations of young people it effects things more noticeably. The mid-60s culture came out of the fact that there was a HUGE population boom after the war. Suddenly there were lots of young people - so things changed noticeably.

[kennermike]

I think things started Changing in the US around 1999 and with 9/11/01 after that everthing has gone downhill .The last 4 or 5 years especially have been a nightmare~

interms of Happy Days being remade now it would be a flop the new America would not embrace the concept unless it was a freakin reality show

[Mikey]

I think even reality shows will eventually sputter out.

They're so popular right now the masses are bound to tire of them and put them where they belong --- back in Springer style talk shows

People seem to forgot we watch TV because reality is boring

[cjefferys]

I think that there was such a huge cultural change during the 60's, that 70's TV audiences could see a big difference in a show that was based in the 50's. The 90's until now? Not so much, other than large advances in technology and the after effects of 9/11. Of course, I wasn't born until 1967, so maybe I'm overestimating the changes that took place in the US during the 1960's, but to me they seem pretty drastic, if you look at what things were like in 1955 compared to 1975.