Anonymous A started this discussion 2 years ago#110,723
The ‘80s is popular again, but nobody remembers the shittier parts of it. Does this mean that in order for a decade to be good it has to have ended decades ago?
spectacles joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 6 hours later[^][v]#1,231,439
ah, the good old days, when kids rode bikes for fun, instead of adults riding bikes to save enough gas money to buy eggs or whatever stupid shit is attainable now that houses are 500% more expensive than in the 80s
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 51 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,231,441
Not entirely. The Japanese economic miracle decade(s) were recognized as such when they happened. Same for several other Asian countries around that time.
However, what wasn't recognized was that these would only be temporary economic booms. People in Japan and abroad, at the time, believed the country would become a superpower. Obviously that never happened, so it's understandable many look back on that time with fondness. Not because it wasn't recognized as good when it happened, but because few anticipated things would actively turn worse.
But there is, separately, an effect of survivorship bias like you mention. Sometimes literally. Everyone killed at war isn't here to remind us how shitty it is. But also for stuff like buildings "they don't build them like they used to"... except all the shit ones fell apart centuries ago. Same for music. Only the hits are remembered and replayed.
Anonymous C double-posted this 2 years ago, 5 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,231,442
Also the effect of propaganda growing stale works against everything above. The Jewish, Communist, terrorist, war on drug scares and so on don't have the same ring to them any more. I mean, some people are nostalgic for 1940s Germany, but not many.