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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
eaton@phire.place ("Eaton") wrote:
It's hard to describe how fundamental the shift in the national attitude towards The Future was after 9/11.
I won't say that it was an *optimistic* time, but as an early 20-something the national conversation was focused on how to best use our surplus, internationally from the end of the cold war and financially from the tech boom and growing economy.
Obviously there were deep, unaddressed problems on both fronts — but the decisions of 2001 just pissed everything away, to a shocking degree.