I think with anything we look back and ignore the bad aspects. Because it was such a major event look at who was in power for most of it. I think what younger people forget with all the orange man bad, Tory Toffs, elitists etc is more people turned up to protest the war(s) in the middle east than Trump winning the election or even the Covid marches.
With culture as I've said stuff like Pulp Fiction, Silence Of The Lambs, Fargo, Unforgiven, even films like Batman Returns and True Lies took what had gone before it and repackaged it with meaning for a new audience. As I've said before I rarely watch new films as they are like a bad pastiche of better films.
In the 90s there was a lot of shit, No Doubt. The music was fast and camp, most likely due to a lot of gay musicians and producers making music. What we have now is stuff like Adele, Ed Sheeran, Emile Sande - where it is dreary shit Radio 3 would have rejected twenty years ago for being too boring.
It does feel like money stretches further, but no doubt some things are much cheaper - computers (an entry level laptop was about £1000 in 1995), basic clothing (T-shirts for £3 on the high street), new technology like streaming £5.99 a month watch as much you like, I remember paying £2.99 to rent a new film for the weekend at Blockbuster. A lot of aspects no doubt worse nearly a million for a one bed flat in parts of London, food seems to cost more and the quality might be worse.
That's all just trivia though. To me it feels like there is less cohesion as everyone gets classed as belonging to a tribe whether that be a gamer, emo, trans. With social media we are fed the myth of free choice and that everyone's opinion is equally valid. I think the Woke thing is a myth designed to rile people up on both sides, most people don't care how many Black actors are on a drama series or whether a company has a carbon emission policy.
