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Have you ever felt like the our culture came to a near standstill in the past 10-15 years? Well, you're not alone. For me, the year our cultural stagnation started is around 2008. Now, I'm not saying things haven't changed at all. I'm saying that, technology aside, things have severely slowed down since then. I anticipate that this topic will be quite divisive, and some people will feel like things have advanced greatly since the 2010s while others feel like we're still living in an updated version of the 2000s. In my mind, the pre-millennium decades, (50s-90s) all felt so distinct and different from each other. In 2002, Vice City, which was set in 1986, felt like it took place on another planet. By the late 2000s, The WWF Attitude Era felt like a relic of an ancient civilization. Going back to the late 2000s in games like GTA4, while fun, just doesn't have that same WOW factor. I think there are two primary reasons for this phenomenon (along with things like 9/11 and C
