How important will the 2010s be as a decade?

[tallguy23]

Just read a great thread about how the 1970's were an influential and important decade that created our modern existence. Does anyone think this current decade will be just as important? If so, in what ways?

-Technological changes (social media, smartphones,etc.)
- Economic changes
- Social changes, primarily with gay marriage
- The ascendance of the Millennial Generation

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The founding of Occupy will be the biggest story. Easily.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The founding of Occupy will be the biggest story. Easily.

Yeah, because the Occupy movement is soooo huge right now .

[The Free North]

The founding of Occupy will be the biggest story. Easily.

Lol

The movement has accomplished nothing sorry to burst your bubble.

It may be a side story in relation to the financial crisis of 2009, but thats about it.

[Thank you for being a friend...]

We're heading into the point now where decades form their identity.  Nobody is calling these the "teens" or the "10's" though.

I think every decade is important but that it takes a while for people to be able to describe them.

We're doing that now with the 90s where there is this 90s nostaglia: the economic boom, the Internet, grunge, boybands, the revitalization of Times Square, the Disney Renaissance, movies like Clueless and Titanic, etc.

The 00s, the last decade, will certainly be remembered as the decade of 9/11, the War on Terror, and The War in Iraq and in the later years of it, the Great Recession.

We can try to see the trends of this decade:

In Technology: Apple and the "iPhone" as a symbol of the 2010s, "Apps" and more social networking, the mainstreaming of Twitter, the corporateness of Google and Facebook, Drone warfare

In Politics: Elizabeth Warren economic populism on the left, anti-government Tea Party on the right, and a new discussion of class and income inequality in America

Certainly, we see with gay people, a much kinder, gentler America for them.

Five year olds have iPads now.  so that says a lot about where this decade is going.

There's probably going to be more inventions by the end of the 2010s.

[Person Man]

We're heading into the point now where decades form their identity.  Nobody is calling these the "teens" or the "10's" though.

I think every decade is important but that it takes a while for people to be able to describe them.

We're doing that now with the 90s where there is this 90s nostaglia: the economic boom, the Internet, grunge, boybands, the revitalization of Times Square, the Disney Renaissance, movies like Clueless and Titanic, etc.

The 00s, the last decade, will certainly be remembered as the decade of 9/11, the War on Terror, and The War in Iraq and in the later years of it, the Great Recession.

We can try to see the trends of this decade:

In Technology: Apple and the "iPhone" as a symbol of the 2010s, "Apps" and more social networking, the mainstreaming of Twitter, the corporateness of Google and Facebook, Drone warfare

In Politics: Elizabeth Warren economic populism on the left, anti-government Tea Party on the right, and a new discussion of class and income inequality in America

Certainly, we see with gay people, a much kinder, gentler America for them.

Five year olds have iPads now.  so that says a lot about where this decade is going.

There's probably going to be more inventions by the end of the 2010s.

Also, I think the 70s weren't defined by 1973, even though Roe v. Wade was just written, Vietnam was ending in Watergate was beginning to be learned about. The other side of the 70s was Nixon's Pardoning, 8% inflation,  the Fall of Saigon, The Fall of Iran and the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. Also, cable TV and computers weren't around yet though color TV was.

[Badger]

The founding of Occupy will be the biggest story. Easily.

Sad? Funny? Both? You decide.

[ElectionsGuy]

The founding of Occupy will be the biggest story. Easily.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK_9uBR0NAQ

[useful idiot]

I'm confident, if current trajectories continue, that it will be the least important decade since the 1950s....

[AudmanOut]

Five years later, what do you think?

[brucejoel99]

I'm confident, if current trajectories continue, that it will be the least important decade since the 1950s....

This hasn't aged well

[pbrower2a]

Most critical decade since the 1940s?



1. Revival of nationalism in a populist assault on liberal humanism against a tendency for homogenization of world culture. Trump. Erdogan. Bolsonaro. Orban. Duterte. Putin.

2. Assertion of mirror-image Marxism (recognizing that capitalism is cruel, corrupt, inequitable, and hierarchical by nature but endorsing such) as a new  or revived orthodoxy.

3. Transformation of education from an effort to improve people to mere training.

4. Monopoly and cartels as an economic ideal instead of an anathema.   

5. An attempt to dismantle the welfare state.

6. Merger of the public and the private sector -- private gain, public enforcement.


We are not through the worst.   

[CookieDamage]

A very prominent rise in left-wing thought amongst young voters, ranging from social democratic ideals at the moderate end to straight up far-left revolutionary communism on the other end. Now of course this has always been around and such, but it seems the average young liberal in America isn't the New Democrat like it was in 1990s or 2005 (to pick a year), but something further left.

And of course rightism is moving away from classical liberalism no regulations patriotism to become increasingly xenophobic, faux protectionist, and nationalistic. Thus, the young people who subscribe to rightism are more likely to be nationalist rather than what we had before.

What seems to be happening is that leftism and rightism in America is diverging from the center and leaving liberalism and conservatism and moving towards social democracy and nationalism.

[HillGoose]

Not that important probably or idk maybe. But i doubt it

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The GOP transitioned the Crts conservative, but the Trump presidency put the GOP back again, in minority of Congress

[Crumpets]

Not as important as the 2000s or the 2020s. The narrative of 2008-present has been pretty much the story of the world's reacting to the craziness and excesses of the post-Cold War years. The 2020s will determine whether there is a reversion to the norm, or if the emotional anti-establishmentism is the new normal.