All around us, we see the effects of living without a real decade
Eighties folks were absolutely obsessed with their grody little decade, especially since it rhymed with “ladies.” The Nineties — has any decade ever been so in love with itself? The Teens did not have any version of theLife in the 2010s has meant getting constantly bombarded by moments that warp your whole sense of time. Like we used to say back in the halcyon days of 2012,.
So much of it comes down to the name. It never got one. The Twenty-Tens? The Ten-Spots? The Hamiltons? That’s a key reason why astrology enjoyed such a boom in the 2010s — we don’t have a decade to mark our “You Are Here” dot on the cosmic timeline, so we turn to the zodiac. That’s why people like living in one. And all around you, you can see the effects of living without one — that near-constant sense of historic dislocation . It’s not just you. It’s not just social media. It’s not just algorithms. It’s the decade gap, a hole in history. It’s not having the Teens to kick around.
I had a moment this fall when I realized I’d missed a couple of weeks of social media, so I decided to catch up on the Conversation. I noticed something odd: For about 48 hours in mid-September, everybody I knew had intense emotions about “Yale plates” and “pencil stores.” It traced back toabout the secret life of an Instagram influencer. People went nuts for this story. But then a week later, it was like it never happened. You know who’s had feelings about Yale plates in December 2019? Nobody.
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