The decade of choice

[Rudy Tamasz]

What decade of the current or the past century had the biggest influence on you guys in terms you think, dress, run your business, vote etc.? I think this might be an interesting conversation.

I was born in 1974. My first memories date back to circa 1978, when Argentina won the World Cup. Despite being a toddler, I think I was influenced a lot by what what was going on back then. I listen to a lot of music from that time. At one point I grew huge sideburns '70s style. I inherited some hippie idealism from my parents. With that, I am an Xer from the '80s in my heart, pragmatic, cynical, suspicious, relying solely on myself. I'm into heavy metal and synth pop gives me some warm memories. I think Maggie and Ronald were pretty cool as politicians although I don't trust politicians at all and despise politics. The fall of the Iron Curtain and the independence of my country were huge events to me. I never really bought into the '90s after that. Nirvana was crap and Sugar Bubba Billie wasn't too much of a leader. The '00s were not bad at all, but by that time my tastes and preferences were pretty much formed.

What about you (poining the finger the way Ronnie Van Zant did)?

[race aficionado]

Nice post Rudy. I will get into it later. Let's idealistically hope that this doesn't degenerate into "your decade sucked!" ;)
But now that we are at it - my fave 60's rocked!!!!!!

[anthonyvop]

The 80's.


There is no debate

[Malbec]

What decade of the current or the past century had the biggest influence on you guys in terms you think, dress, run your business, vote etc.? I think this might be an interesting conversation.


Living in the West I'd say the most influential decade for how I live was the '60s. Up to this point society was pretty stuffy and intensely hierarchical. Politicians were revered and not to be questioned, after all they couldn't possibly make mistakes or make decisions purely for personal gain could they? Tolerance for anyone not in the mainstream ie anyone not white, male and heterosexual was pretty low. Overt legal discrimination based on race and religion were openly practiced in places like the US and Northern Ireland. Traditional establishments like politicians were not to be questioned (like the church). Music hadn't changed much in years, electric guitars were purely for blacks and not fit for good white folk to listen to. Electronics were something purely for the military or the space projects, noone else could afford them.

All this changed in the '60s, accompanied by an economic recovery after WW2 that improved living standards massively. Much of what we take for granted started to become acceptable in this decade.

When it comes to geopolitics I'd agree with anthony that the '80s was probably the most important but it didn't influence my everyday life anywhere near as much.

[Eki]

Living in the West I'd say the most influential decade for how I live was the '60s.
From 1956 to 1981 our President was Urho Kekkonen, who said we have church yards full of white crosses to remind us that we can't trust the West to help us and taught us that we'd better think for ourselves and not let the West or the East to do the thinking for us.

Urho Kekkonen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urho_Kekkonen)

[wedge]

1980s

I was born in 1980 so probably just at the right time though I do wish I was born a bit earlier - more likely to have a huge vinyl collection rather than CDs and old enough to go raving in early 90s.

Young Ones had a massive effect on me. Strange as this may sound it still feels wrong to vote Conservatives.

Hip hop culture was breaking into the mainstream its four pillars: MCs, DJ, graffitti, break dancing

'88 AKA the summer of love. Oh yes, I was fully aware that something exciting was breaking through and the possibility that there was more than what the pop charts had to offer. Tunes like Pump up the Volume by MARRS and Beat Dis were like Charley/Prodigy and had crossover appeal. I raided my sister's limited music collection for this new form of electronic music dubbed acid house.

90s run pretty close. I can't think why it would be a bad decade unless you had a bad drug habit.

[sdutt]

In India, it has to be the 90s, India got totally globalised and there is no looking back since

[Rollo]

What decade of the current or the past century had the biggest influence on you guys in terms you think, dress, run your business, vote etc.? I think this might be an interesting conversation.


I think that it's probably the 10s in my case... specifically the 1910s.

The Business Shirt, the idea of the office and the beginning of electric light and the telephone in people's houses and businesses all tend to combine in the period from 1910-20.
It was the beginning of proper thinking about how to deliver government services such as education and really the beginning of mass motoring and ideas like Time and Motion studies in the workplace.

[race aficionado]

Dang! Rollo you're old!!! :)


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[AndyRAC]

Good question.
I'm going to go completely leftfield - and while not a decade, the period that saw Britain go from a rural economy, to an industrial economy....thanks to the Industrial Revolution.

[edv]

There was a time....after the mass acceptance & use of birth control pills and before the emergence of AIDS....(well, you can fill in the blanks).
Apart from the oil embargoes and Disco, I thought the '70s were pretty darned good!

[Mark]

I think the answer is nearly always when you were in your late teens which for me was the 1990s.

[donKey jote]

80's for me then... the movida madrileña :p

otherwise this decade, until the next one at least :D

[racingfanatic]

I think the 90s were the best ten years for me

[driveace]

The 70s and early 80 s when drivers had NO aids,and when we had a road rally nearly every weekend in Yorkshire or Lancashire,.And good years too for my driving school business Before the fools started discounting driving lessons.Pay peanuts,get a monkey !!!!And good music around too !

[Eki]

The 70s and early 80 s when drivers had NO aids,
I think before early 80s nobody had AIDS.

[driveace]

I think before early 80s nobody had AIDS.

Drivers aids,ABS,Power Steering,ESP,etc,Not the human form !!!

[Eki]

Drivers aids,ABS,Power Steering,ESP,etc,Not the human form !!!
I knew, just couldn't resist.

[markabilly]

I think the answer is nearly always when you were in your late teens which for me was the 1990s.
so it seems for most....from about 18 to 25 years of age..one seems to be most aware and in their prime...after that, it all slides downhill, in all forms, figurative, mentally, belly wise.......

[donKey jote]

belly wise.......
in your case: billy wise.......

[BDunnell]

I think that it's probably the 10s in my case... specifically the 1910s.

The Business Shirt, the idea of the office and the beginning of electric light and the telephone in people's houses and businesses all tend to combine in the period from 1910-20.
It was the beginning of proper thinking about how to deliver government services such as education and really the beginning of mass motoring and ideas like Time and Motion studies in the workplace.

I like your way of thinking. I am surprised to see the 1960s being mentioned here — to a certain extent it was an important decade culturally and socially, but, as Dominic Sandbrook writes most persuasively in his books on the period, in many ways the events of that decade affected only a minority of the British population.

[Eki]

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[Malbec]

I am surprised to see the 1960s being mentioned here — to a certain extent it was an important decade culturally and socially, but, as Dominic Sandbrook writes most persuasively in his books on the period, in many ways the events of that decade affected only a minority of the British population.

I have no doubt you're right that few people in the '60's were actually involved in the changes I described but I thought this thread was about which decade influenced our current lives the most? Most of the social freedoms you and I enjoy (as policed by society as well as the state) date from movements during this decade.

[Rollo]

I have no doubt you're right that few people in the '60's were actually involved in the changes I described but I thought this thread was about which decade influenced our current lives the most? Most of the social freedoms you and I enjoy (as policed by society as well as the state) date from movements during this decade.

I'm not so sure about that.

Being a white male aged 18-80, the 40-hour week, the right to vote and paid holidays were won towards the end of the 19th century. Specifically in NSW, the Eight Hours Act came in 1916, the universal right to vote came in 1902, and paid holidays came in 1938.
Things like the right to free speech came as the result of legislation passed well before the invention of Australia, and things such as fit and proper working conditions were won during the late 19th Century.

The 1960s was a tremendous time of social change but only because other white males like me were too prejudiced, bloody minded and stupid to "grant" decency to people who aught to have already had those freedoms in the first place.

[t_paulet]

After ten years of what I should choose changes. I dont know . that is long time.