The 19A0s

[sabotabby]

The lost decade theory is really conceptually up my alley (even if it means that I'm 43, heh) and now I want to write something set in the 19A0s, even if I don't much care for the art I've seen so far.

Have people done this already? Is it a Thing that no one told me about?

Comments

[xturtle.livejournal.com]

I have never heard of this before and it may have just broke my brain. Ow. Or wow. I'm not sure.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

I refuse to support any theory which will make me ten years older. I'm not even ready to be the age that I am yet...

But sure, conceptually interesting as the basis for a short story or something, yes.

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

O_o ...the hell?

You know, my first impulse was to show my brother, who is a conspiracy nut and would probably love this; but then I remembered how he thinks *everything* he reads and hears is true, especially if it directly contradicts all actual, scientific evidence (for example, that guy in the States who shot up his military base a few years back was apparently on anti-depressants, which, according to him, work by removing inhibitions and pretty much work by causing schizoid breaks with reality; my stating that if that were true, this would be happening every bloody day was brushed aside, as was my attempts to explain, from my own first-hand perspective and own study of the subject, what depression actually is and how various anti-depressants actually work. Which of course has nothing to do with inhibitions at all, but hey, he heard it from this guy who has a late-night conspiracy-themed radio show on the Internet, so IT MUST ALL BE TRUUUUE).

Yeah, don't think I'm gonna show it to him after all, lol.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

That art reminds me of the stuff I used to see in OMNI magazine.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

I've seen that theory on boingboing before, but... I guess I don't get it. What is the benefit of having a "lost decade" to explain something (aside from "cultural trauma"/forgetting)... All the retro/80s synth stuff is obviously explained by the fact that the 80s were full of that kinda thing. So, I guess I'm not sure... Like if they posited some crazy 5 year very different cultural thing then I'd get it, but as it is, it looks like the 80s to me.

Maybe that's the point? Maybe the 80s were a collective trauma, and this is a slight dig towards the Reagan Era?

Maybe Reagan had a pre-First Term in the lost decade (though doesn't he say it's really just 5 years in his chronology, despite the name?)