What year did the USA peak?

Liberation of Kuwait, 28 February 1991

Hey, it's another cry for attention from Moviebuff224/Intothenight/Pressplay.

This topic and the responses it will attract are better suited for the politics board.

Example: see BillHicksMoron's shitty opinion below.

60/70s -- music, movies, stand-up comedy.. Literature is the one thing that had its last gasp in the 50s, when everyone not only knew the books by Orwell, Huxley, etc., but when people want to describe 2022 and the modern-age in general, they point to books from the 40s and 50s!

Cost of living was much better. Never heard of anyone have debt for going to college. I know a handful who went to the University of California for free. I think culture has been dead for 40 years. I don't really care who the President is, in part, because I won't like him.

The internet was only achievement in my lifetime, having the option of selecting whatever you want, from whenever you want, and from wherever you want.

1492

1997. That's when "Dante's Peak" came out.

I peaked a lot in the early 90’s.

first of all, i don't know why people like you like doing troll-ish things liek this so much. why does this make you happy?

anyway, now is the best time to ever have been alive. whatever problems we face, most people have better lives in real, measurable ways.

i do think the things that charles murray and robert puttnam talk about in coming apart and bowling alone are real and serious, and that's got consequences for how lower class people have become entrenched in that position and become socially & even politically isolated. that's a real problem for sure.

but i'd still say that by almost any measure, more people have better, longer lives. they have more varied diets. they have better clothes. they have access to entertainment and technology that dwarfs what they had before.

we're very lucky. we should appreciate that a lot more, i figure.

1890

That was when we'd taken all the Native Americans' lands and had railroad tracks everywhere.