>>510265360>Real peak civ happened in the late 70's - early 80's.The late '70s - early '80s were an absolutely shitty period, similar in many ways (or even worse) than the last few years.
Severe economic recession and oil shortages. High inflation combined with historically high interest rates and low economic growth and high unemployment, which was so unprecedented that economists had to coin the new term "stagflation" to describe it.
You know how hard it is to buy a house today? Now imagine that with like a 15-18% interest rate.
It's also when globalization was really getting going and lots of good reliable jobs were being moved overseas forever.
Crime was insane, every major city was basically a no-go zone and the housing projects and ghetto areas were Mogadishu-tier with constant machine gun battles in the streets.
Drug use was through the roof, but it shifted from the hippie dippie weed and LSD type stuff to lots of heroin, speed, cocaine, and then PCP and crack epidemics.
It was so bad that Jimmy Carter gave his "malaise" speech where he basically said that all of these problems were happening because everyone had completely lost all confidence in the future.