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It’s Not Too Early to Name the Decade
Brownstone Institute ^ | 12/11/23 | Jeffrey A Tucker

Posted on 12/11/2023 5:56:09 AM PST by week 71

The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene.

Try as I might, I cannot understand the last one. Regardless, it’s absolutely the case that there has been a dramatic turning of events and our lives. It’s not just national. It’s global and devastating.

I’m going with the Terrible Twenties.

Everyone seems to agree that this moniker applies, regardless of class or political leanings. You can take your pick of the symptoms: ill-health, inflation, political division, censorship, overweening state power, shabby political candidates, war, crime, homelessness, financial strain, dependency, learning loss, suicides, excess deaths, shortened lifespans, lack of trust, demographic upheaval, the purge of dissent, the threat of authoritarianism, mass incompetence, spread of crazy ideologies, lack of civility, fake science, corruption at all levels, middle class disappearance, and on and on ad infinitum.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ageofemergency; assholocene; coldwarii; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; greatburning; greennewdeal; homosexualagenda; omnishambles; terribletwenties
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To: week 71

The Great Karenocide.


21 posted on 12/11/2023 6:57:33 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Obey or get canceled.)
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To: week 71

The Lockdown Decade

The Panic Decade


22 posted on 12/11/2023 7:02:25 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: week 71

The Stupud Decade


23 posted on 12/11/2023 7:12:41 AM PST by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: week 71

If fair elections occur going forward it could be called ‘The Tree of Liberty Twenties’


24 posted on 12/11/2023 7:22:48 AM PST by bluescape
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To: week 71

“The Age of Incompetence”

Folks denigrate to 80’s as the “decade of greed” but the 2020’s are certainly a “Decade of Government Greed”.


25 posted on 12/11/2023 7:29:04 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: week 71
It is too early.

December 1963 was still for the most part not much different than the 1950s. Most of the defining events of the 1960s decade was still in the future in December of 1963. JFK had just been murdered but The Beatles hadn't even hit US radio yet and Vietnam was still a minor conflict half a world away.

Ditto for December 1973, and so on.

26 posted on 12/11/2023 7:35:35 AM PST by SamAdams76 (6,508,933 Truth | 87,456,907 Twitter)
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To: Pollard

Agree. But I (in my early 50’s) have been diagnosed with Early Onset of Cynical Grumpy Oldman. Grin. Things could indeed change after 2024 election.


27 posted on 12/11/2023 7:36:12 AM PST by week 71
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To: week 71

The Crazy Years works for me.

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28 posted on 12/11/2023 7:50:12 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: week 71

The great unwakening


29 posted on 12/11/2023 9:12:30 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: week 71

how about

of duh and diapers


30 posted on 12/11/2023 9:16:01 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: week 71

The age of dementia


31 posted on 12/11/2023 9:18:39 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
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To: week 71

The Waste


32 posted on 12/11/2023 10:32:34 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: week 71

The Whoring Twenties?


33 posted on 12/11/2023 10:37:43 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Soros on assisting the Nazis with the Holocaust: "That's when my character was made.")
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To: week 71

Why?

The “Roaring 20s” and maybe the “Hungry [18]40s” are probably the only decades named in that way.


34 posted on 12/11/2023 10:45:20 AM PST by x
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To: BigFreakinToad

Yeah - I like it. Especially due to the irony that many young folks call themselves ‘Woke’.


35 posted on 12/11/2023 11:34:40 AM PST by week 71
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To: SamAdams76

True. The early ‘60s were like the ‘50s in many ways.

Remember how we used to hear about the ‘60s, the ‘70s, the 80s, etc. I have hardly heard anyone talk of decades since the turn of the century.

Does anyone ever talk about the ‘00s, or the ‘10s?


36 posted on 12/11/2023 12:14:29 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SamAdams76

I remember someone talking about “American Graffiti” as being a depiction of the ‘50s, yet the events in that movie were said to have happened in 1962.


37 posted on 12/11/2023 12:15:44 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Does anyone ever talk about the ‘00s, or the ‘10s?

I thought that Jethro was always talking about the '00s ...


38 posted on 12/11/2023 12:18:19 PM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: JJBookman

Tranny twenties so far


39 posted on 12/11/2023 3:26:18 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: week 71

Tragic Twenties?


40 posted on 12/11/2023 4:26:15 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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